Horizontally align capital letter legends in python
I have made a multi-axis graph using the following code and I am unable to arrange the legend the way I want. My graph code looks like this:
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
import numpy as np
x = np.arange(4)
y = [5, 7, 4, 9]
z = [9, 3, 5, 6]
r = [30, 40, 45, 37]
fig,ax = plt.subplots()
abc = ax.bar(x,y,0.25 )
cde = ax.bar(x+0.25,z,0.25)
ax.legend((abc[0], cde[0]), ('y', 'z'),bbox_to_anchor=(0., 1.02, 1, .102) , borderaxespad=0.)
ax.set_xticks(x + 0.25 / 2)
ax.set_xticklabels(('A', 'B', 'C', 'D'))
ax2 = ax.twinx()
efg = ax2.plot(x+0.25/2,r,color = 'black',label = "r")
ax2.legend(bbox_to_anchor=(0.11,1.07) , borderaxespad=0.)
plt.show()
The displayed graph looks like this 
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The legend on the top right is vertically aligned, but I want them to be horizontally aligned. I couldn't find any documentation on this. I want them to be as shown in the following figure.
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You need to use an argument ncol
that sets the number of columns to use in legend , eg. ncol=2
will give you two columns.
ax.legend(..., ncol=2)
Then you can see how to place the legend with an argument loc
along with bbox_to_anchor
to find reasonable parameters and bring both legends in line with each other:
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
import numpy as np
x = np.arange(4)
y = [5, 7, 4, 9]
z = [9, 3, 5, 6]
r = [30, 40, 45, 37]
fig,ax = plt.subplots()
abc = ax.bar(x,y,0.25 )
cde = ax.bar(x+0.25,z,0.25)
ax.legend((abc[0], cde[0]), ('y', 'z'),loc="lower right", bbox_to_anchor=(1., 1.02) , borderaxespad=0., ncol=2)
ax.set_xticks(x + 0.25 / 2)
ax.set_xticklabels(('A', 'B', 'C', 'D'))
ax2 = ax.twinx()
efg = ax2.plot(x+0.25/2,r,color = 'black',label = "r")
ax2.legend(bbox_to_anchor=(0,1.02),loc="lower left", borderaxespad=0.)
plt.show()
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