[FIXED] Legend in matplotlib shows first entry of a list only

Issue

I'm trying to display a custom legend for a bar graph, but it is only displaying the first legend in the legend list. How can I display all the values in the legend?

df.time_to_travel_grouping.value_counts().plot(kind="bar", 
                                               color = ["b","tab:green","tab:red","c","m","y","tab:blue","tab:orange"],
                                               xlabel="TTT", ylabel="Total Counts", 
                                               title="Fig4: Total Counts by Time to Travel Category (TTT)", figsize=(20,15))
plt.legend(["a","b","c","d","e","f","g","h"])
plt.subplots_adjust(bottom=0.15)
plt.subplots_adjust(left=0.15)

Solution

Let's get the patches handles from the axes using ax.get_legend_handles_labels:

s = pd.Series(np.arange(100,50,-5), index=[*'abcdefghij'])
ax = s.plot(kind="bar", 
           color = ["b","tab:green","tab:red","c","m","y","tab:blue","tab:orange"],
           xlabel="TTT", ylabel="Total Counts", 
           title="Fig4: Total Counts by Time to Travel Category (TTT)", figsize=(20,15))


patches, _ = ax.get_legend_handles_labels()
labels = [*'abcdefghij']
ax.legend(*patches, labels, loc='best')

plt.subplots_adjust(bottom=0.15)
plt.subplots_adjust(left=0.15)

Output:

Answered By - Scott Boston