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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 [R330]. 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 : graph

A NetworkX graph

References

[R330]

(1, 2) http://docs.python.org/library/pickle.html

Examples

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