I was wondering if you had considered a legend option that labels each line near to the line, e.g. fromhere.

I was imagining that this could be similar to the current API of:

ax.plot(xdata, ydata, label="Oil")ax.legend(loc="near_line") # or something

Automatically deciding where to place the legends might be tricky - mentioned by theTufte in R package. So there would probably also need to be a way to manually specify locations for tricky cases.

I know that this can be done manually withannotate (this is what I am currently doing, usually just shifted wrt the first/last point of the data) and there is some sample code to somewhat automate it e.g.1,2.

Have I missed a native way to do this? If not, is it something that matplotlib would be interested in?