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automatic legend placement

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Bryan
Bryan

Hi,

The short answer is no, this is still an open feature request:

  Implement Legend(orientation="auto/best/optimal/...") · Issue #585 · bokeh/bokeh · GitHub

Thanks,

Bryan

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On Oct 17, 2017, at 11:32, Qinpeng Wang <wqp.gatech@gmail.com> wrote:

Dear Bokeh users,

I found this stackoverflow question:

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/39006611/automatic-legend-placement-in-bokeh

Does Bokeh have a way to automatically select a location for placing legend?

Thanks,
Qinpeng

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Qinpeng_Wang
Qinpeng_Wang

Thank you!

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On Tuesday, October 17, 2017 at 11:34:50 AM UTC-5, Bryan Van de ven wrote:

Hi,

The short answer is no, this is still an open feature request:

    [https://github.com/bokeh/bokeh/issues/585](https://github.com/bokeh/bokeh/issues/585)

Thanks,

Bryan

On Oct 17, 2017, at 11:32, Qinpeng Wang wqp.g...@gmail.com wrote:

Dear Bokeh users,

I found this stackoverflow question:

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/39006611/automatic-legend-placement-in-bokeh

Does Bokeh have a way to automatically select a location for placing legend?

Thanks,
Qinpeng

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