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:

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")