Output matplotlib figure to SVG with text as text, not curves

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Matplotlibs SVG text rendering can be configured either in the matplotlibrc or in code.
From Customizing Matplotlib with style sheets and rcParams:

#svg.fonttype : 'path'         # How to handle SVG fonts:
#    'none': Assume fonts are installed on the machine where the SVG will be viewed.
#    'path': Embed characters as paths -- supported by most SVG renderers
#    'svgfont': Embed characters as SVG fonts -- supported only by Chrome,
#               Opera and Safari

This translates to the following code for neither embedding the font nor rendering the text as path:

import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
plt.rcParams['svg.fonttype'] = 'none'

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