Graph API / framework

[George Sakkis]

Does anyone know of a good graph API ? The only one I found for Python is
part of kjbuckets
(http://starship.python.net/crew/aaron_watters/kjbuckets/kjbuckets.html),
but I was looking for something more sophisticated; I am more concerned
about elegance and extensibility than top performance. JUNG
(http://jung.sourceforge.net/doc/manual.html) for java looks more promising.
Does anyone have experience with it or some other relevant framework ?
Thanks,

George

 

[Larry Bates]

You might want to review ReportLab. It has a
very nice graphing API.

www.reportlab.org

HTH,
Larry Bates
Syscon, Inc.

 

[Kenneth McDonald]

The best package I've seen for doing Python API graphs is matplotlib.

However, I think what the poster is looking for is not x-y graphs,
but discrete (i.e. node/link) graphs, and for that I don't have
a suggestion. Pretty easy to put something together using
dicts, though.

Ken

 

[Simon Dahlbacka]

Does anyone know of a good graph API ? The only one I found for Python is
part of kjbuckets
(http://starship.python.net/crew/aaron_watters/kjbuckets/kjbuckets.html),
but I was looking for something more sophisticated; I am more concerned
about elegance and extensibility than top performance. JUNG
(http://jung.sourceforge.net/doc/manual.html) for java looks more promising.
Does anyone have experience with it or some other relevant framework ?
Thanks,

George

is something like pydot (http://dkbza.org/pydot.html) what you are
looking for? Bindings for the dot tool from the grapviz package
(http://www.research.att.com/sw/tools/graphviz/)

/Simon

 

[Doug Holton]

Does anyone know of a good graph API ? The only one I found for Python is
part of kjbuckets
(http://starship.python.net/crew/aaron_watters/kjbuckets/kjbuckets.html),
but I was looking for something more sophisticated; I am more concerned
about elegance and extensibility than top performance. JUNG
(http://jung.sourceforge.net/doc/manual.html) for java looks more promising.
Does anyone have experience with it or some other relevant framework ?
Thanks,

You'd probably just want to implement it yourself. There are some basic
python graph examples out there, like this one:
http://www.ece.arizona.edu/~denny/python_nest/graph_lib_1.0.1.html
http://www.ece.arizona.edu/~denny/python_nest/graph_lib.py

For drawing graphs, people tend to use Graphviz from python, but you
could draw it yourself using a GUI toolkit like wxPython.

Or else use Jython to access some of the Java libraries like Jung or JGraph.

If you find any better options, please share them here,
thanks