Interface between networkx and igraph

Networkx and python-igraph both support a wide range of read/write algorithms (networkx, python-igraph).

At least two formats (GML and pajek) appear to be common between the two, although I haven't tried this.

Here two ways to convert a NetworkX graph to an igraph:

import networkx as nx, igraph as ig

# create sample NetworkX graph
g = nx.planted_partition_graph(5, 5, 0.9, 0.1, seed=3)

# convert via edge list
g1 = ig.Graph(len(g), list(zip(*list(zip(*nx.to_edgelist(g)))[:2])))
  # nx.to_edgelist(g) returns [(0, 1, {}), (0, 2, {}), ...], which is turned
  #  into [(0, 1), (0, 2), ...] for igraph

# convert via adjacency matrix
g2 = ig.Graph.Adjacency((nx.to_numpy_matrix(g) > 0).tolist())

assert g1.get_adjacency() == g2.get_adjacency()

Using the edge list was somewhat faster for the following 2500-node graph on my machine: (Note that the code below is Python 2 only; I updated the code above to be Python 2/3 compatible.)

In [5]: g = nx.planted_partition_graph(50, 50, 0.9, 0.1, seed=3)

In [6]: %timeit ig.Graph(len(g), zip(*zip(*nx.to_edgelist(g))[:2]))
1 loops, best of 3: 264 ms per loop

In [7]: %timeit ig.Graph.Adjacency((nx.to_numpy_matrix(g) > 0).tolist())
1 loops, best of 3: 496 ms per loop

Using the edge list was also somewhat faster for g = nx.complete_graph(2500).