How to set as default matplotlib contour plot to always label contours
Perhaps I'm missing something obvious in the documentation, http://matplotlib.org/examples/pylab_examples/contour_demo.html but when I first create a contour plot, there are labels for each contour line. However, matplotlib does not do this by default. Using the plot given in the demo, I generate more contour lines between 0.00 and 3.00 : import numpy as np import matplotlib.mlab as mlab import matplotlib.pyplot as plt delta = 0.025 x = np.arange(-3.0, 3.0, delta) y = np.arange(-2.0, 2.0, delta) X, Y = np.meshgrid(x, y) Z1 = mlab.bivariate_normal(X, Y, 1.0, 1.0, 0.0, 0.0) Z2 = mlab.bivariate