DOT / Graphviz Format

Read Graphviz DOT (.gv / .dot) graphs as node then edge records (via NetworkX / pydot).

Overview

Property	Value
Format id	gv (alias dot)
Class	DOTIterable
Extensions	.gv, .dot
Read	Yes
Write	No
Extra	graph (networkx)
Maturity	stable

Record shape

{"_type": "node", "id": "A", "label": "start"}
{"_type": "edge", "source": "A", "target": "B"}

Requires NetworkX with pydot support for DOT parsing.

Usage

from iterable import open_iterable

with open_iterable("graph.dot") as source:
    for rec in source:
        print(rec["_type"], rec)

Install with pip install iterabledata[graph].

See also

• GEXF — GEXF graphs
• GraphML — GraphML graphs
• Supported formats