networkx.readwrite.gml.generate_gml¶

generate_gml(G, stringizer=None)[source]¶

Generate a single entry of the graph G in GML format.

Parameters

G (NetworkX graph) – The graph to be converted to GML.
stringizer (callable, optional) – A stringizer which converts non-int/non-float/non-dict values into strings. If it cannot convert a value into a string, it should raise a ValueError to indicate that. Default value: None.

Returns

lines – Lines of GML data. Newlines are not appended.

Return type

generator of strings

Raises

NetworkXError – If stringizer cannot convert a value into a string, or the value to convert is not a string while stringizer is None.

See also

literal_stringizer()

Notes

Graph attributes named ‘directed’, ‘multigraph’, ‘node’ or ‘edge’, node attributes named ‘id’ or ‘label’, edge attributes named ‘source’ or ‘target’ (or ‘key’ if G is a multigraph) are ignored because these attribute names are used to encode the graph structure.

GML files are stored using a 7-bit ASCII encoding with any extended ASCII characters (iso8859-1) appearing as HTML character entities. Without specifying a stringizer/destringizer, the code is capable of handling int/float/str/dict/list data as required by the GML specification. For other data types, you need to explicitly supply a stringizer/destringizer.

For additional documentation on the GML file format, please see the GML url.

See the module docstring networkx.readwrite.gml for more details.

Examples

>>> G = nx.Graph()
>>> G.add_node("1")
>>> print("\n".join(nx.generate_gml(G)))
graph [
  node [
    id 0
    label "1"
  ]
]
>>> G = nx.OrderedMultiGraph([("a", "b"), ("a", "b")])
>>> print("\n".join(nx.generate_gml(G)))
graph [
  multigraph 1
  node [
    id 0
    label "a"
  ]
  node [
    id 1
    label "b"
  ]
  edge [
    source 0
    target 1
    key 0
  ]
  edge [
    source 0
    target 1
    key 1
  ]
]