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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. boothby ◴[11 Dec 25 23:31 UTC] No.46238853[source]▶

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I find svg.path to be good for parsing path data

  https://pypi.org/project/svg.path/

For actually parsing the file, there are a number of options (in the end, it's an XML file and I tend to treat it as such)

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An SVG is all you need