networkx 3.6.1

Python package for creating and manipulating graphs and networks

Stars: 16626, Watchers: 16626, Forks: 3462, Open Issues: 350

The networkx/networkx repo was created 15 years ago and the last code push was 16 hours ago.
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How to Install networkx

You can install networkx using pip

pip install networkx

or add it to a project with poetry

poetry add networkx

Package Details

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PyPi:

https://pypi.org/project/networkx/

Documentation:

https://networkx.org/documentation/stable/

GitHub Repo:

https://github.com/networkx/networkx

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• Scientific/Engineering/Bio-Informatics
• Scientific/Engineering/Information Analysis
• Scientific/Engineering/Mathematics
• Scientific/Engineering/Physics
• Software Development/Libraries/Python Modules

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Errors

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Code Examples

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GitHub Issues

The networkx package has 350 open issues on GitHub

• tree.center: raise NotATree for self-loops
• BUGFIX: spring energy layout with zero iterations
• Computing normalized rich-club coefficient may lead to ZeroDivisionError
• Desired semantics: chordal graphs with self-loops
• Proposal: Optimized Minimal Cycle Basis (MCB) for Planar/Sparse Graphs (300x faster speedup)
• GSoC 2026 not planned for NetworkX
• Optimize _build_paths_from_predecessors stack logic for 30-40% speedup
• Optimize _build_paths_from_predecessors stack logic for 30-40% speedup
• Fix network simplex callable
• ENH: Add support for hiding edges for callable capacity or weight parameter
• DOC: Floating point consideration in negative cycles
• Doc/add examples and unit tests for betweenness_centrality_subset
• Bug: Documentation build fails/warns for missing optional dependencies in examples
• DOC: clarify maximal independent set and relation to cliques
• Adding optional sp arg to closeness_centrality

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