# Location of the legend in PyPlot

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**Category:** New to Julia\
**Tags:** question, pyplot\
**Created:** [January 5, 2017, 6:42pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/location-of-the-legend-in-pyplot/1311 "2017-01-05T18:42:20Z")\
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It doesn’t automatically adjust the axis dimensions unfortunately.

```julia
x = 0:0.1:3*pi
y = sin(x)
z = cos(x)
ax = axes()
plot(x,y,label="sin(x)")
plot(x,z,label="cos(x)")
grid("on")
legend(bbox_to_anchor=[1.05,1],loc=2,borderaxespad=0)
ax[:set_position]([0.06,0.06,0.71,0.91])

```

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