Python equivalent of D3.js

Question

Can anyone recommend a Python library that can do interactive graph visualization?

I specifically want something like d3.js but for python

Answer 1

One recipe that I have used (described here: Co-Director Network Data Files in GEXF and JSON from OpenCorporates Data via Scraperwiki and networkx ) runs as follows:

• generate a network representation using networkx
• export the network as a JSON file
• import that JSON into to d3.js. (networkx can export both the tree and graph/network representations that d3.js can import).

The networkx JSON exporter takes the form:

from networkx.readwrite import json_graph
import json
print json.dumps(json_graph.node_link_data(G))

Alternatively you can export the network as a GEXF XML file and then import this representation into the sigma.js Javascript visualisation library.

from xml.etree.cElementTree import tostring
writer=gf.GEXFWriter(encoding='utf-8',prettyprint=True,version='1.1draft')
writer.add_graph(G)
print tostring(writer.xml)