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

In case of numpy matrix plot assign multiple legends at once for each column

I would like to answer this question based on plotting a matrix that has two columns.

Say you have a 2 column matrix Ret

then one may use this code to assign multiple labels at once

import pandas as pd, numpy as np, matplotlib.pyplot as plt
pd.DataFrame(Ret).plot()

plt.xlabel('time')
plt.ylabel('Return')
plt.legend(['Bond Ret','Equity Ret'], loc=0)
plt.show()

I hope this helps