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read_gpickle

read_gpickle(path)

Read graph object in Python pickle format.

Pickles are a serialized byte stream of a Python object [1]. This format will preserve Python objects used as nodes or edges.

Parameters:path (file or string) – File or filename to write. Filenames ending in .gz or .bz2 will be uncompressed. Returns:G – A NetworkX graph Return type:graph

Examples

>>> G = nx.path_graph(4)
>>> nx.write_gpickle(G, "test.gpickle")
>>> G = nx.read_gpickle("test.gpickle")

References

[1]	http://docs.python.org/library/pickle.html