How do I assign multiple labels at once in matplotlib?

Question

I have the following dataset:

x = [0, 1, 2, 3, 4]
y = [ [0, 1, 2, 3, 4],
      [5, 6, 7, 8, 9],
      [9, 8, 7, 6, 5] ]

Now I plot it with:

Answer 1

You can give the labels while plotting the curves

import pylab as plt

x = [0, 1, 2, 3, 4]
y = [ [0, 1, 2, 3, 4], [5, 6, 7, 8, 9], [9, 8, 7, 6, 5] ]
labels=['foo', 'bar', 'baz']
colors=['r','g','b']

# loop over data, labels and colors
for i in range(len(y)):
    plt.plot(x,y[i],'o-',color=colors[i],label=labels[i])

plt.legend()
plt.show()