I create a plot with seaborn that has several lines and error bands. In the legend, I only want to show some of the labels and hide others. Previously, it was possible to call ax.legend(['one', '_', 'two']) to hide specific labels/artists from appearing in the legend. However, in the newest matplotlib version (>3.10) this behaviour has been removed. As I'm using seaborn, I don't have access to the ax.plot calls themself, in which I could set the labels manually. Is there any other way to selectively show only some legend labels and suppress others? import numpy as np import pandas as pd import seaborn as sns import matplotlib.pyplot as plt df = pd.DataFrame({'timepoint': np.random.randint(0, 10, 1000), 'class': np.random.choice(['cat', 'dog', 'duck', 'hare'], 1000), 'probability': np.random.rand(1000) }) sns.lineplot(df, x='timepoint', y='probability', hue='class') # previously, providing underscores as names was hiding the label # this has unfortunately been deprecated plt.legend(['cat', *['_']*5, 'hare']) Continue reading...
