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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal>Hi PyNGL users,<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>I was curious if it is possible to capture the contour paths (the coordinates of them) after a plot has been made in Ngl (I pasted some code below)? The equivalent in matplotlib would be the following. <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Thanks for the help,<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Matt<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>matplotlib<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>clevels = [2]<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>cn = plt.contour(lon2d,lat2d,temp, levels=clevels)<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>for i in cn.collections:<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> #loop over all contours per level<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> for contour_path in i.get_paths():<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Ngl<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> cnres.cnFillOn = True<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> #cnres.cnFillMode = "RasterFill"<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> cnres.cnLinesOn = False<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> cnres.cnLineLabelsOn = False<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> cmap = Ngl.read_colormap_file("./tpw_rgb.txt")<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> cnres.cnFillPalette = cmap<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> cnres.cnLevelSelectionMode = "ManualLevels"<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> cnres.cnMaxLevelValF = 70.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> cnres.cnMinLevelValF = 2.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> cnres.cnLevelSpacingF = 2<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> cnres.lbAutoManage = False<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> cnres.pmLabelBarWidthF = 0.018<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> cnres.lbLabelFontHeightF = 0.009<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> cnres.lbLabelStride = 2<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> contour_plot = Ngl.contour(wks,cvar,cnres)<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> print contour_plot.ncontour<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> print dir(contour_plot)<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>['__doc__', '__module__', 'base', 'cafield', 'contour', 'labelbar', 'legend', 'map', 'nbase', 'ncafield', 'ncontour', 'nlabelbar', 'nlegend', 'nmap', 'nprimitive', 'nsffield', 'nstreamline', 'ntext', 'nvector', 'nvffield', 'nxy', 'nxydspec', 'primitive', 'sffield', 'streamline', 'text', 'vector', 'vffield', 'xy', 'xydspec']<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> sys.exit()<o:p></o:p></p></div></body></html>