Matplotlib svg as string and not a file

Question

I\'d like to use Matplotlib and pyplot to generate an svg image to be used in a Django framework. as of now I have it generating image files that are link to by the page, bu

Answer 1

Here is python3 version

import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
import numpy as np
import io

f = io.BytesIO()
a = np.random.rand(10)
plt.bar(range(len(a)), a)
plt.savefig(f, format = "svg")

print(f.getvalue()) # svg string