networkx.readwrite.gml.parse_gml

parse_gml(lines, label='label', destringizer=None)

Parse GML graph from a string or iterable.

Parameters

linesstring or iterable of strings

Data in GML format.

labelstring, optional

If not None, the parsed nodes will be renamed according to node attributes indicated by label. Default value: ‘label’.

destringizercallable, optional

A destringizer that recovers values stored as strings in GML. If it cannot convert a string to a value, a ValueError is raised. Default value : None.

Returns

GNetworkX graph

The parsed graph.

Raises

NetworkXError

If the input cannot be parsed.

See also

write_gml, read_gml

Notes

This stores nested GML attributes as dictionaries in the NetworkX graph, node, and edge attribute structures.

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 writing int/float/str/dict/list data as required by the GML specification. For writing other data types, and for reading data other than str 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.