.. _drawing:
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Drawing
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NetworkX provides basic functionality for visualizing graphs, but its main goal
is to enable graph analysis rather than perform graph visualization. In the
future, graph visualization functionality may be removed from NetworkX or only
available as an add-on package.
Proper graph visualization is hard, and we highly recommend that people
visualize their graphs with tools dedicated to that task. Notable examples of
dedicated and fully-featured graph visualization tools are
`Cytoscape `_,
`Gephi `_,
`Graphviz `_ and, for
`LaTeX `_ typesetting,
`PGF/TikZ `_.
To use these and other such tools, you should export your NetworkX graph into
a format that can be read by those tools. For example, Cytoscape can read the
GraphML format, and so, ``networkx.write_graphml(G, path)`` might be an appropriate
choice.
More information on the features provided here are available at
- matplotlib: http://matplotlib.org/
- pygraphviz: http://pygraphviz.github.io/
Matplotlib
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.. automodule:: networkx.drawing.nx_pylab
.. autosummary::
:toctree: generated/
draw
draw_networkx
draw_networkx_nodes
draw_networkx_edges
draw_networkx_labels
draw_networkx_edge_labels
draw_circular
draw_kamada_kawai
draw_planar
draw_random
draw_spectral
draw_spring
draw_shell
Graphviz AGraph (dot)
=====================
.. automodule:: networkx.drawing.nx_agraph
.. autosummary::
:toctree: generated/
from_agraph
to_agraph
write_dot
read_dot
graphviz_layout
pygraphviz_layout
Graphviz with pydot
===================
.. automodule:: networkx.drawing.nx_pydot
.. autosummary::
:toctree: generated/
from_pydot
to_pydot
write_dot
read_dot
graphviz_layout
pydot_layout
Graph Layout
============
.. automodule:: networkx.drawing.layout
.. autosummary::
:toctree: generated/
bipartite_layout
circular_layout
kamada_kawai_layout
planar_layout
random_layout
rescale_layout
rescale_layout_dict
shell_layout
spring_layout
spectral_layout
spiral_layout
multipartite_layout
LaTeX Code
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.. automodule:: networkx.drawing.nx_latex
.. autosummary::
:toctree: generated/
to_latex_raw
to_latex
write_latex