From 0139aca5c61d3fba57aa2cf8de3e89bed0139372 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Tim Hoffmann <2836374+timhoffm@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2025 20:43:52 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Backport PR #30321: Fix type annotation for Axes.get_legend()
 to include None

---
 lib/matplotlib/axes/_base.pyi | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/lib/matplotlib/axes/_base.pyi b/lib/matplotlib/axes/_base.pyi
index df82ad7ec4a5..dcfcc4ca9027 100644
--- a/lib/matplotlib/axes/_base.pyi
+++ b/lib/matplotlib/axes/_base.pyi
@@ -224,7 +224,7 @@ class _AxesBase(martist.Artist):
         ymin: float | None = ...,
         ymax: float | None = ...
     ) -> tuple[float, float, float, float]: ...
-    def get_legend(self) -> Legend: ...
+    def get_legend(self) -> Legend | None: ...
     def get_images(self) -> list[AxesImage]: ...
     def get_lines(self) -> list[Line2D]: ...
     def get_xaxis(self) -> XAxis: ...