.. DO NOT EDIT.
.. THIS FILE WAS AUTOMATICALLY GENERATED BY SPHINX-GALLERY.
.. TO MAKE CHANGES, EDIT THE SOURCE PYTHON FILE:
.. "generated/gallery/general/plot_lineplot_with_legend.py"
.. LINE NUMBERS ARE GIVEN BELOW.

.. only:: html

    .. note::
        :class: sphx-glr-download-link-note

        :ref:`Go to the end <sphx_glr_download_generated_gallery_general_plot_lineplot_with_legend.py>`
        to download the full example code

.. rst-class:: sphx-glr-example-title

.. _sphx_glr_generated_gallery_general_plot_lineplot_with_legend.py:


Multi-Line Temperature Profile Plot
===================================

.. GENERATED FROM PYTHON SOURCE LINES 6-49



.. image-sg:: /generated/gallery/general/images/sphx_glr_plot_lineplot_with_legend_001.png
   :alt: Air temperature
   :srcset: /generated/gallery/general/images/sphx_glr_plot_lineplot_with_legend_001.png
   :class: sphx-glr-single-img





.. code-block:: Python


    import matplotlib.pyplot as plt

    import iris
    import iris.plot as iplt
    import iris.quickplot as qplt


    def main():
        fname = iris.sample_data_path("air_temp.pp")

        # Load exactly one cube from the given file.
        temperature = iris.load_cube(fname)

        # We only want a small number of latitudes, so filter some out
        # using "extract".
        temperature = temperature.extract(
            iris.Constraint(latitude=lambda cell: 68 <= cell < 78)
        )

        for cube in temperature.slices("longitude"):
            # Create a string label to identify this cube (i.e. latitude: value).
            cube_label = "latitude: %s" % cube.coord("latitude").points[0]

            # Plot the cube, and associate it with a label.
            qplt.plot(cube, label=cube_label)

        # Add the legend with 2 columns.
        plt.legend(ncol=2)

        # Put a grid on the plot.
        plt.grid(True)

        # Tell matplotlib not to extend the plot axes range to nicely
        # rounded numbers.
        plt.axis("tight")

        # Finally, show it.
        iplt.show()


    if __name__ == "__main__":
        main()


.. rst-class:: sphx-glr-timing

   **Total running time of the script:** (0 minutes 0.116 seconds)


.. _sphx_glr_download_generated_gallery_general_plot_lineplot_with_legend.py:

.. only:: html

  .. container:: sphx-glr-footer sphx-glr-footer-example

    .. container:: sphx-glr-download sphx-glr-download-jupyter

      :download:`Download Jupyter notebook: plot_lineplot_with_legend.ipynb <plot_lineplot_with_legend.ipynb>`

    .. container:: sphx-glr-download sphx-glr-download-python

      :download:`Download Python source code: plot_lineplot_with_legend.py <plot_lineplot_with_legend.py>`


.. only:: html

 .. rst-class:: sphx-glr-signature

    `Gallery generated by Sphinx-Gallery <https://sphinx-gallery.github.io>`_