Importing NetworkX into Wolfram

Once in a while it can be useful to fetch external graphs into the Wolfram stack for analysis or conversely.
Below is a simple procedure to do so.

First, you need to make sure that Python can be accessed:

You can register an environment like so:

With a session inside a particular environment in place we can interactively fetch data:

Within a Wolfram notebook you can type ’>’  and run all you wish:

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import networkx as nx
nx.__version__

If you have a NetworkX pickle you can fetch it and hand it over to Wolfram:

Creating the graph is now as simple as:

This is not particularly pretty of course but that’s not Wolfram’s strength. If you wish to see beautiful renderings, use yEd or yEd Live (explained elsewhere on this site).