Post processing contour plot, how?

[Cody Piersall]

Sorry for the short response, but check out this Stack Overflow
question/answer

http://stackoverflow.com/q/5666056/1612701

On Thu, Jan 14, 2016 at 3:42 PM, Martin Schöön <martin.schoon at gmail.com>
wrote:

> I am interested in creating contours but not for printing or
> including in a report as an illustration. I want to go on
> working on a numerical representation of the contours.
>
> Creating contour plots using matplotlib is a breeze but I fail
> to find a way to export the contours thus created in a numerical
> format. Scilab has such a function but I try to reduce the number
> of tools I use and I try to focus on Python.
>
> So, I could write my own find-contours algorithm but I think
> there should be a way of extracting the contours created by
> matplotlib even if I have failed to find out how.
>
> Does anyone know how to do this?
>
> I have found one very manually involved way starting with
> saving the figure in svg format and the open that file in
> a text editor.
>
> /Martin
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