read_gpickle

read_gpickle(path)[source]

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
pathfile or string

File or filename to write. Filenames ending in .gz or .bz2 will be uncompressed.

Returns
Ggraph

A NetworkX graph

References

1

https://docs.python.org/3/library/pickle.html

Deprecated since version 2.6.

Examples

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