from mpl_toolkits.mplot3d import axes3d import matplotlib.pyplot as plt fig = plt.figure() ax = axes3d.Axes3D(fig) X, Y, Z = axes3d.get_test_data(0.05) cset = ax.contour(X, Y, Z, 16, extend3d=True) ax.clabel(cset, fontsize=9, inline=1) plt.show()