Description: Legends
Keywords: pychart

## 6.3 Legends

class `legend.T`
  A legend is a subcomponent of area that draws a rectangular box with the description of each plots.

This class supports the following attributes:

`bottom_fudge`
  Type: length in points (
  xrefunit) Default: 3.

  Amount of space below the last line.

`frame_fill_style`
  Type: fill_style.T ( see Section 16) Default: fill_style.white.

`frame_line_style`
  Type: line_style.T ( see Section 14) Default: line_style.black.

`inter_col_sep`
  Type: length in points (
  xrefunit) Default: 0.

  Space between each column in the legend.

`inter_row_sep`
  Type: length in points (
  xrefunit) Default: 0.

  Space between each row in the legend.

`left_fudge`
  Type: length in points (
  xrefunit) Default: 5.

  Amount of space left of the legend.

`loc`
  Type: (x,y) Default: None.

  Bottom-left corner of the legend. The default location of a legend is the bottom-right end of the chart.

`nr_rows`
  Type: int Default: 9999.

  Number of rows in the legend. If the number of plots in a chart is larger than nr_rows, multiple columns are created in the legend.

`right_fudge`
  Type: length in points (
  xrefunit) Default: 5.

  Amount of space right of the legend.

`shadow`
  Type: (xoff,yoff,fill) Default: None.

  The value is either None or a tuple. When non-None, a drop-shadow is drawn beneath the object. X-off, and y-off specifies the offset of the shadow relative to the object, and fill specifies the style of the shadow ( see Section 16).

`top_fudge`
  Type: length in points (
  xrefunit) Default: 0.

  Amount of space above the first line.