### Author:  [@chobbes](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/chobbes)
#### Post date: [December 15, 2016, 4:01pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/userwarning-legend-does-not-support-line2d-object/970/1 "2016-12-15T16:01:51Z")
When plotting with legends using PyPlot, I got the following error. What may this error be caused by?
```julia
/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.7/matplotlib/legend.py:613: UserWarning: Legend does not support []
Use proxy artist instead.
http://matplotlib.sourceforge.net/users/legend_guide.html#using-proxy-artist
(str(orig_handle),))
```
Thanks!
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### Author:  [@Daneel](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Daneel)
#### Post date: [December 16, 2016, 6:54am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/userwarning-legend-does-not-support-line2d-object/970/2 "2016-12-16T06:54:37Z")
What are you plotting? It’s referring to some Line2D object that it says it can’t support.
I use legends in PyPlot all the time so I know they work and I can’t remember seeing that problem.
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### Author:  [@chobbes](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/chobbes)
#### Post date: [December 17, 2016, 3:18pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/userwarning-legend-does-not-support-line2d-object/970/3 "2016-12-17T15:18:22Z")
Hi Daneel, Thanks for the comments! In fact I came across this message when working on a very simple 1D plot.
```julia
using PyPlot
f = plot([-1.0; 1.0], ones(2,1), "b")
hold(true)
g = plot([-2.0; -1.0], [0.0; 2.0], "r")
legend((f, g), (L"f(x)", L"g(x)"), loc=2, fontsize="small")
```
Am I missing anything? Thanks!!
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### Author:  [@Ralph\_Smith](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Ralph_Smith)
#### Post date: [December 17, 2016, 3:55pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/userwarning-legend-does-not-support-line2d-object/970/4 "2016-12-17T15:55:42Z")
The plot objects get wrapped in arrays. You can do this
```julia
legend([f[1],g[1]],(L"f(x)", L"g(x)"), loc=2, fontsize="small")
```
or just put the labels in the `plot` calls (my preference):
```julia
f = plot([-1.0; 1.0], ones(2,1), "b", label=L"f(x)")
hold(true)
g = plot([-2.0; -1.0], [0.0; 2.0], "r", label=L"g(x)")
legend(loc=2, fontsize="small")
```
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### Author:  [@chobbes](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/chobbes)
#### Post date: [December 17, 2016, 4:05pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/userwarning-legend-does-not-support-line2d-object/970/5 "2016-12-17T16:05:38Z")
Hi Ralph\_Smith,
I see! Thanks a lot! I didn’t realize that f and g here are arrays. Yes, it’s easier to just include the legends in the plot commands.
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### Author:  [@stevengj](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/stevengj)
#### Post date: [December 17, 2016, 8:15pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/userwarning-legend-does-not-support-line2d-object/970/6 "2016-12-17T20:15:06Z")
Note that you can also just do
```julia
legend([L"f(x)", L"g(x)"], loc=2, fontsize="small")
```
and it will automatically apply the labels to the first two plotted curves. There’s generally no need to use the output of the `plot` function at all.
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### Author:  [@chobbes](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/chobbes)
#### Post date: [December 17, 2016, 9:35pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/userwarning-legend-does-not-support-line2d-object/970/7 "2016-12-17T21:35:41Z")
Steven, Thanks for reminding me that! Well, the example I gave is just a simplified version my actual code. In the actual code I have a dozen of calls of plots and only some of them are referred in the legend. So I need only some of the handles, not all of them. Thanks!!
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### Author:  [@chobbes](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/chobbes)
#### Post date: [December 24, 2016, 5:21pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/userwarning-legend-does-not-support-line2d-object/970/8 "2016-12-24T17:21:04Z")
I’m trying to plot two lines by calling plot only once. But both of the legends are set to be the legend for the second line. Am I missing anything? Thanks!!
```julia
using PyPlot
plot([-1.0; 1.0], ones(2,1), "b", label=L"f(x)", [-2.0; -1.0], [0.0; 2.0], "r", label=L"g(x)")
legend(loc=2, fontsize="small")
```
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### Author:  [@dpsanders](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/dpsanders)
#### Post date: [December 24, 2016, 11:47pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/userwarning-legend-does-not-support-line2d-object/970/9 "2016-12-24T23:47:56Z")
Why don’t you just separate them into 2 different `plot` commands (which is, in any case, more readable and more extensible to N commands)?
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### Author:  [@chobbes](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/chobbes)
#### Post date: [December 25, 2016, 9:32am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/userwarning-legend-does-not-support-line2d-object/970/10 "2016-12-25T09:32:46Z")
On the one hand, I want to include the julia code into my paper and the space I have is rather limited. The fewer lines, the better. On the other hand, I’m expecting what I have above to work normally. Since what I see is not what I expect, I thought I’d better ask. There might be some ideas of pyplot that I don’t know. I know this is somewhat a silly question. But my curiosity drove me to ask… Sorry…
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### Author:  [@dpsanders](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/dpsanders)
#### Post date: [December 25, 2016, 10:35am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/userwarning-legend-does-not-support-line2d-object/970/11 "2016-12-25T10:35:41Z")
It’s a fair question, I have just personally never liked that compressed style, but if space is at a premium then it makes sense. I’m afraid I don’t know the answer, though!
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### Author:  [@KALIDAS\_Y](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/KALIDAS_Y)
#### Post date: [July 13, 2019, 10:00pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/userwarning-legend-does-not-support-line2d-object/970/12 "2019-07-13T22:00:52Z")
The array index needed to be “0” instead of “1” in my scenario when working around the same issue.
#plt.figure(figsize=(6, 6), dpi=80)
act\_plt = plt.plot(x\_data,y,‘.’,color=‘green’)
l1\_plt = plt.plot(x\_data,y\_pred\_l1,‘.’,color=‘blue’)
l2\_plt = plt.plot(x\_data,y\_pred\_l2,‘.’,color=‘purple’)
ax = plt.gca()
ax.legend([act\_plt[0], l1\_plt[0], l2\_plt[0]],[‘Actual’,‘L1’,‘L2’])
plt.show()