If you want to use the calculated data for some other purpose outside of matplotlib then you are welcome to do so but if the format isn't to your satisfaction then it is your responsibility to convert ...
I was about to test #25426 and found a bug in the version 3.7.1 (the stable one) and also in the main branch, which didn't appear using Matplotlib 3.4.3. We have a PyQT application where we update the ...