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.sch...@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 > -- > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list > -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
