read_weighted_edgelist¶

read_weighted_edgelist(path, comments='#', delimiter=None, create_using=None, nodetype=None, encoding='utf-8')[source]¶

Read a graph as list of edges with numeric weights.

Parameters:

path : file or string

File or filename to write. If a file is provided, it must be opened in ‘rb’ mode. Filenames ending in .gz or .bz2 will be uncompressed.

comments : string, optional

The character used to indicate the start of a comment.

delimiter : string, optional

The string used to separate values. The default is whitespace.

create_using : Graph container, optional,

Use specified container to build graph. The default is networkx.Graph, an undirected graph.

nodetype : int, float, str, Python type, optional

Convert node data from strings to specified type

encoding: string, optional

Specify which encoding to use when reading file.

Returns:

G : graph

A networkx Graph or other type specified with create_using

Notes

Since nodes must be hashable, the function nodetype must return hashable types (e.g. int, float, str, frozenset - or tuples of those, etc.)

Example edgelist file format.

With numeric edge data:

# read with 
# >>> G=nx.read_weighted_edgelist(fh)
# source target data  
a b 1
a c 3.14159
d e 42