Convert a networkx to graph-tool graph

nx2gt.py

import networkx as nx
import graph_tool as gt



def get_prop_type(value, key=None):
    """
    Performs typing and value conversion for the graph_tool PropertyMap class.
    If a key is provided, it also ensures the key is in a format that can be
    used with the PropertyMap. Returns a tuple, (type name, value, key)
    """
    if isinstance(key, unicode):
        # Encode the key as ASCII
        key = key.encode('ascii', errors='replace')

    # Deal with the value
    if isinstance(value, bool):
        tname = 'bool'

    elif isinstance(value, int):
        tname = 'float'
        value = float(value)

    elif isinstance(value, float):
        tname = 'float'

    elif isinstance(value, unicode):
        tname = 'string'
        value = value.encode('ascii', errors='replace')

    elif isinstance(value, dict):
        tname = 'object'

    else:
        tname = 'string'
        value = str(value)

    return tname, value, key


def nx2gt(nxG):
    """
    Converts a networkx graph to a graph-tool graph.
    """
    # Phase 0: Create a directed or undirected graph-tool Graph
    gtG = gt.Graph(directed=nxG.is_directed())

    # Add the Graph properties as "internal properties"
    for key, value in nxG.graph.items():
        # Convert the value and key into a type for graph-tool
        tname, value, key = get_prop_type(value, key)

        prop = gtG.new_graph_property(tname) # Create the PropertyMap
        gtG.graph_properties[key] = prop     # Set the PropertyMap
        gtG.graph_properties[key] = value    # Set the actual value

    # Phase 1: Add the vertex and edge property maps
    # Go through all nodes and edges and add seen properties
    # Add the node properties first
    nprops = set() # cache keys to only add properties once
    for node, data in nxG.nodes_iter(data=True):

        # Go through all the properties if not seen and add them.
        for key, val in data.items():
            if key in nprops: continue # Skip properties already added

            # Convert the value and key into a type for graph-tool
            tname, _, key  = get_prop_type(val, key)

            prop = gtG.new_vertex_property(tname) # Create the PropertyMap
            gtG.vertex_properties[key] = prop     # Set the PropertyMap

            # Add the key to the already seen properties
            nprops.add(key)

    # Also add the node id: in NetworkX a node can be any hashable type, but
    # in graph-tool node are defined as indices. So we capture any strings
    # in a special PropertyMap called 'id' -- modify as needed!
    gtG.vertex_properties['id'] = gtG.new_vertex_property('string')

    # Add the edge properties second
    eprops = set() # cache keys to only add properties once
    for src, dst, data in nxG.edges_iter(data=True):

        # Go through all the edge properties if not seen and add them.
        for key, val in data.items():
            if key in eprops: continue # Skip properties already added

            # Convert the value and key into a type for graph-tool
            tname, _, key = get_prop_type(val, key)

            prop = gtG.new_edge_property(tname) # Create the PropertyMap
            gtG.edge_properties[key] = prop     # Set the PropertyMap

            # Add the key to the already seen properties
            eprops.add(key)

    # Phase 2: Actually add all the nodes and vertices with their properties
    # Add the nodes
    vertices = {} # vertex mapping for tracking edges later
    for node, data in nxG.nodes_iter(data=True):

        # Create the vertex and annotate for our edges later
        v = gtG.add_vertex()
        vertices[node] = v

        # Set the vertex properties, not forgetting the id property
        data['id'] = str(node)
        for key, value in data.items():
            gtG.vp[key][v] = value # vp is short for vertex_properties

    # Add the edges
    for src, dst, data in nxG.edges_iter(data=True):

        # Look up the vertex structs from our vertices mapping and add edge.
        e = gtG.add_edge(vertices[src], vertices[dst])

        # Add the edge properties
        for key, value in data.items():
            gtG.ep[key][e] = value # ep is short for edge_properties

    # Done, finally!
    return gtG


if __name__ == '__main__':

    # Create the networkx graph
    nxG = nx.Graph(name="Undirected Graph")
    nxG.add_node("v1", name="alpha", color="red")
    nxG.add_node("v2", name="bravo", color="blue")
    nxG.add_node("v3", name="charlie", color="blue")
    nxG.add_node("v4", name="hub", color="purple")
    nxG.add_node("v5", name="delta", color="red")
    nxG.add_node("v6", name="echo", color="red")

    nxG.add_edge("v1", "v2", weight=0.5, label="follows")
    nxG.add_edge("v1", "v3", weight=0.25, label="follows")
    nxG.add_edge("v2", "v4", weight=0.05, label="follows")
    nxG.add_edge("v3", "v4", weight=0.35, label="follows")
    nxG.add_edge("v5", "v4", weight=0.65, label="follows")
    nxG.add_edge("v6", "v4", weight=0.53, label="follows")
    nxG.add_edge("v5", "v6", weight=0.21, label="follows")

    for item in nxG.edges_iter(data=True):
        print item

    # Convert to graph-tool graph
    gtG = nx2gt(nxG)
    gtG.list_properties()

Great tool. On line 55 I'm getting this error:
TypeError: Expected 'key' to be <class 'str'> or <class 'str'>; was <class 'bytes'> any ideas?

Great contribution! But I'm facing the same problem here. =/

This TypeError is caused by converting the key and value to ascii. Simply remove the lines 13-15 and 30.

def get_prop_type(value, key=None):
    """
    Performs typing and value conversion for the graph_tool PropertyMap class.
    If a key is provided, it also ensures the key is in a format that can be
    used with the PropertyMap. Returns a tuple, (type name, value, key)
    """
    # Deal with the value
    if isinstance(value, bool):
        tname = 'bool'

    elif isinstance(value, int):
        tname = 'float'
        value = float(value)

    elif isinstance(value, float):
        tname = 'float'

    elif isinstance(value, unicode):
        tname = 'string'

    elif isinstance(value, dict):
        tname = 'object'

    else:
        tname = 'string'
        value = str(value)

    return tname, value, key

Anybody knows how to convert from graph-tool to networkx?

I am currently working on it to get to know all the libraries. You could try this one: https://github.com/luerhard/pyintergraph/blob/master/convert/gt2nx.py

The previous comment's link seems to be dead, so this is a quick note to any who follow that I made a few tweaks to make this work with a 2.0+ version of NetworkX, Python3, and for my own purposes I converted to utf-8 instead of ascii for international usages. Code at https://gist.github.com/tomshaffner/7a2df7f9ec6b1be33dd0413897125683 if anyone wishes to start there and save some time. Thanks to the original author for a great start! If you see this maybe you'd care to update the original code?