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Source code for networkx.readwrite.nx_yaml

"""
****
YAML
****
Read and write NetworkX graphs in YAML format.

"YAML is a data serialization format designed for human readability 
and interaction with scripting languages."
See http://www.yaml.org for documentation.

Format
------
http://pyyaml.org/wiki/PyYAML

"""
__author__ = """Aric Hagberg (hagberg@lanl.gov)"""
#    Copyright (C) 2004-2015 by 
#    Aric Hagberg <hagberg@lanl.gov>
#    Dan Schult <dschult@colgate.edu>
#    Pieter Swart <swart@lanl.gov>
#    All rights reserved.
#    BSD license.

__all__ = ['read_yaml', 'write_yaml']

import networkx as nx
from networkx.utils import open_file

[docs]@open_file(1,mode='w') def write_yaml(G, path, encoding='UTF-8', **kwds): """Write graph G in YAML format to path. YAML is a data serialization format designed for human readability and interaction with scripting languages [1]_. Parameters ---------- G : graph A NetworkX graph path : file or string File or filename to write. Filenames ending in .gz or .bz2 will be compressed. encoding: string, optional Specify which encoding to use when writing file. Examples -------- >>> G=nx.path_graph(4) >>> nx.write_yaml(G,'test.yaml') References ---------- .. [1] http://www.yaml.org """ try: import yaml except ImportError: raise ImportError("write_yaml() requires PyYAML: http://pyyaml.org/") yaml.dump(G, path, **kwds)
[docs]@open_file(0,mode='r') def read_yaml(path): """Read graph in YAML format from path. YAML is a data serialization format designed for human readability and interaction with scripting languages [1]_. Parameters ---------- path : file or string File or filename to read. Filenames ending in .gz or .bz2 will be uncompressed. Returns ------- G : NetworkX graph Examples -------- >>> G=nx.path_graph(4) >>> nx.write_yaml(G,'test.yaml') >>> G=nx.read_yaml('test.yaml') References ---------- .. [1] http://www.yaml.org """ try: import yaml except ImportError: raise ImportError("read_yaml() requires PyYAML: http://pyyaml.org/") G=yaml.load(path) return G
# fixture for nose tests def setup_module(module): from nose import SkipTest try: import yaml except: raise SkipTest("PyYAML not available") # fixture for nose tests def teardown_module(module): import os os.unlink('test.yaml')