[matplotlib-devel] fig.legend placement

Hi,

  As you know in matplotlib 0.60 fig.legend does allow
placing the legend outside of the axis. I'm hoping to find its
position, and then position the axes where i want wrt
to the fig.legend placement. I had to problem placing the axes.
For the legend i tried
rec = legendInstance.get_frame()
lVertices = rec.get_verts()  

I think that the lVertices don't truly represent where the
legend actually gets placed. e.g. putting the legend at the upper left
or lower right don't change the values in lVertices.

I guess what i'm really trying to accomplish is a legend placement
along the lines of something like 

'outside upper left' --> meaning outside of the axes to the upper left
'outside lower left' --> meaning outside of the axes to the lower left   
etc.

I think i can do this at my application level...if i can either get the
legend placement, or set the position.  Another approach would be
to attempt to hack up the legend.py code to accept other placements.

Am i making this way more complicated than it is?
Any suggestions?

Thanks,

Jim