dijkstra_path¶
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dijkstra_path
(G, source, target, weight='weight')[source]¶ Returns the shortest weighted path from source to target in G.
Uses Dijkstra’s Method to compute the shortest weighted path between two nodes in a graph.
Parameters: G (NetworkX graph)
source (node) – Starting node
target (node) – Ending node
weight (string or function) – If this is a string, then edge weights will be accessed via the edge attribute with this key (that is, the weight of the edge joining
u
tov
will beG.edge[u][v][weight]
). If no such edge attribute exists, the weight of the edge is assumed to be one.If this is a function, the weight of an edge is the value returned by the function. The function must accept exactly three positional arguments: the two endpoints of an edge and the dictionary of edge attributes for that edge. The function must return a number.
Returns: path – List of nodes in a shortest path.
Return type: Raises: NetworkXNoPath
– If no path exists between source and target.Examples
>>> G=nx.path_graph(5) >>> print(nx.dijkstra_path(G,0,4)) [0, 1, 2, 3, 4]
Notes
Edge weight attributes must be numerical. Distances are calculated as sums of weighted edges traversed.
The weight function can be used to hide edges by returning None. So
weight = lambda u, v, d: 1 if d['color']=="red" else None
will find the shortest red path.The weight function can be used to include node weights. ``` def func(u, v, d):
return G.node[u].get(‘node_weight’, 1)/2 + G.node[v].get(‘node_weight’, 1)/2 + d.get(‘weight’, 1)``` In this example we take the average of start and end node weights of an edge and add it to the weight of the edge.
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