add legend to DataFrame.plot()

[sjev]

It would be very helpful if DataFrame.plot() function would also provide a legend with column names

[wesm]

If you call plt.legend() after calling df.plot(), it plots the legend. Might be more useful if it just did this automatically, though

[wesm]

cf http://pandas.sourceforge.net/visualization.html#basic-plotting-plot

[sjev]

Thanks! Maybe its a good idea to include 'legend' options in df.plot(legend='True') ....

[wesm]

cool. I agree with you-- I'll leave the issue open so I don't forget to do this

[wesm]

I added this in git master-- so it plots a legend by default now but you can also pass legend=False to disable it