This set of postprocessing scripts in python accompanies the manuscript 'Long-term sea-level rise necessitates a commitment to adaptation' by Marjolijn Haasnoot 1,2 , Gundula Winter 1 , Sally Brown 3,5 , Richard J. Dawson 4,5 , Philip J. Ward 6 , Dirk Eilander 1,6 postprocess_people_affected.py: Postprocess results from the flood model https://github.com/Deltares/aqueduct-coastal-flooding to calculate people affected from coastal flooding in sub-country units, countries and World Bank regions and globally. The method is described in above manuscript. Required data is available from the data sources cited in the manuscript. postprocess_plots.py: Script to generate plots in main manuscript and supplementary material 1 Deltares, Delft, Boussinesqweg 1, 2629 HV Delft, The Netherlands; 2 Utrecht University, Department of Geosciences, Princetonlaan 8a, Utrecht; 3 Department of Life and Environmental Science, Bournemouth University, Poole, Dorset. BH12 5BB; 4 School of Engineering, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE3 4BD, UK; 5 Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research, UK; 6 Institute for Environmental Studies, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, De Boelelaan 1111, 1081 HV Amsterdam, The Netherlands