@@ -388,17 +388,20 @@ def __init__(
388388#: instance.
389389self ._custom_handler_map = handler_map
390390
391- locals_view = locals ()
392- for name in ["numpoints" ,"markerscale" ,"shadow" ,"columnspacing" ,
393- "scatterpoints" ,"handleheight" ,'borderpad' ,
394- 'labelspacing' ,'handlelength' ,'handletextpad' ,
395- 'borderaxespad' ]:
396- if locals_view [name ]is None :
397- value = mpl .rcParams ["legend." + name ]
398- else :
399- value = locals_view [name ]
400- setattr (self ,name ,value )
401- del locals_view
391+ def val_or_rc (val ,rc_name ):
392+ return val if val is not None else mpl .rcParams [rc_name ]
393+
394+ self .numpoints = val_or_rc (numpoints ,'legend.numpoints' )
395+ self .markerscale = val_or_rc (markerscale ,'legend.markerscale' )
396+ self .scatterpoints = val_or_rc (scatterpoints ,'legend.scatterpoints' )
397+ self .borderpad = val_or_rc (borderpad ,'legend.borderpad' )
398+ self .labelspacing = val_or_rc (labelspacing ,'legend.labelspacing' )
399+ self .handlelength = val_or_rc (handlelength ,'legend.handlelength' )
400+ self .handleheight = val_or_rc (handleheight ,'legend.handleheight' )
401+ self .handletextpad = val_or_rc (handletextpad ,'legend.handletextpad' )
402+ self .borderaxespad = val_or_rc (borderaxespad ,'legend.borderaxespad' )
403+ self .columnspacing = val_or_rc (columnspacing ,'legend.columnspacing' )
404+ self .shadow = val_or_rc (shadow ,'legend.shadow' )
402405# trim handles and labels if illegal label...
403406_lab ,_hand = [], []
404407for label ,handle in zip (labels ,handles ):