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An SVG is all you need

(jon.recoil.org)
281 points sadiq | 2 comments | 11 Dec 25 19:25 UTC | HN request time: 0.395s | source
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amelius ◴[11 Dec 25 23:05 UTC] No.46238590[source]▶
I recently found out that it is surprisingly hard to convert an SVG file that consists of series of line segments into a list of those line segments in Python.

I tried with ChatGPT and Claude but both were not able to find a solution that respects the entire specification, especially transforms.

Initially, my expectation was that there must be a library for this kind of thing, but alas.

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1. e12e ◴[11 Dec 25 23:26 UTC] No.46238799[source]▶
I mean - it's XML so you could go that way and extract the d element from path element?

But there seems to be a lot of SVG specific tooling and code to do this in python?

Eg: https://github.com/RaubCamaioni/svgpath

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