14.6.3. networkx.readwrite.gpickle.write_gpickle¶

networkx.readwrite.gpickle.write_gpickle(G, path, protocol=2)[source]¶

Write graph in Python pickle format.

Pickles are a serialized byte stream of a Python object [R1267]. This format will preserve Python objects used as nodes or edges.

Parameters:	G : graph A NetworkX graph path : file or string File or filename to write. Filenames ending in .gz or .bz2 will be compressed. protocol : integer Pickling protocol to use. Default value: pickle.HIGHEST_PROTOCOL.

References

[R1267]

(1, 2) http://docs.python.org/library/pickle.html

Examples

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