Extract matplotlib colormap in hex-format

You can get a tuple of rgba values for the segment with index i by calling cmap(i). There is also already a function that turns rgb values into hex. As Joe Kington wrote in the comments, you can use matplotlib.colors.rgb2hex. Therefore, a possible solution would be:

from pylab import *

cmap = cm.get_cmap('seismic', 5)    # PiYG

for i in range(cmap.N):
    rgba = cmap(i)
    # rgb2hex accepts rgb or rgba
    print(matplotlib.colors.rgb2hex(rgba))

The output is:

#00004c
#0000ff
#ffffff
#ff0000
#7f0000