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{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"DiscussionForumPosting","headline":"Legend positioning behavior change from matplotlib  {2.1.0 -\u003e 2.2.2}","articleBody":"### Bug report\r\n\r\n**Bug summary**\r\nThe behavior of positioning a legend outside the plot by using the figure transformation(**fig.transFigure**) has changed, by shortening the size of plot and leaving too much space between plot and legend.\r\n\r\n**Code for reproduction**\r\n\r\n```python\r\nimport numpy as np\r\nimport matplotlib.pyplot as plt\r\n\r\n# Fixing random state for reproducibility\r\nnp.random.seed(19680801)\r\n\r\nN = 50\r\nx = 15*np.random.rand(N)\r\ny = 15*np.random.rand(N)\r\ncolors = np.random.rand(N)\r\n\r\nfig, ax = plt.subplots(figsize=(8,6))\r\n\r\nax.scatter(x, y, c=colors, alpha=0.5, label='Scatter plot')\r\nax.plot([0, 15],[0, 15], color='r', linestyle='-', linewidth=2.5, label = 'Straight line')\r\n\r\nax.legend(bbox_to_anchor=(1, 0), loc=\"upper right\",\r\n           bbox_transform=fig.transFigure, columnspacing=0.5, ncol=2)\r\n\r\nfig.tight_layout()\r\nplt.savefig(_image_name_, bbox_inches=\"tight\")\r\n```\r\n\r\n**Actual outcome**\r\n![output_2 2 2](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/5120865/39248486-33e5a1b2-486a-11e8-9675-0c33d4f90f46.png)\r\n\r\n**Expected outcome**\r\nNotice the empty space between plot and the legend. This was not the case with Matplotlib version: 2.1.0\r\nBelow are the plots for the same stuff in both the versions:\r\nMatplotlib 2.1.0:\r\n![matplotlib_2 1 0](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/5120865/39248713-d20d739c-486a-11e8-9cd1-ce5b2cabac84.PNG)\r\n\r\nMatplotb 2.2.2:\r\n![matplotlib_2 2 2](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/5120865/39248750-e32d8d74-486a-11e8-875f-cbae362f0ab6.PNG)\r\n\r\n**Matplotlib version**\r\n  * Operating system: Windows 10\r\n  * Matplotlib version: '2.2.2'\r\n  * Matplotlib backend: Qt5Agg or module://ipykernel.pylab.backend_inline\r\n  * Python version: Python 3.6.5 |Anaconda custom (64-bit)\r\n  * Jupyter Notebook version: 6.3.1\r\n\r\nI have the Python installed through Anaconda and I spotted the above change after I updated my packages through Anaconda.\r\n![image](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/5120865/39249294-58cf95da-486c-11e8-8d4f-ee8c2c22dc8f.png)","author":{"url":"https://github.com/deepak18","@type":"Person","name":"deepak18"},"datePublished":"2018-04-25T13:40:25.000Z","interactionStatistic":{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":"https://schema.org/CommentAction","userInteractionCount":13},"url":"https://github.com/11126/matplotlib/issues/11126"}