networkx.read_gpickle¶

networkx.read_gpickle(path)[source]¶

Read graph object in Python pickle format.

Pickles are a serialized byte stream of a Python object [R1236]. 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

[R1236]

(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")