Using networkx with my own object

Question

I have my own objects, say pepperoni. I have a list of ribs from each pepperoni and a list of pepperonis. Then I create a graph using networkx. I am trying to find the weight of the shortest path from one pepperoni to another. However, I get the error as follows, which tracks internal things from networkx as follows:

Traceback (most recent call last):


File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
  File "pizza.py", line 437, in shortestPath
    cost = nx.shortest_path_length(a, spepp, tpepp, True)
  File "/Library/Python/2.6/site-packages/networkx-1.3-py2.6.egg/networkx/algorithms/shortest_paths/generic.py", line 181, in shortest_path_length
    paths=nx.dijkstra_path_length(G,source,target)
  File "/Library/Python/2.6/site-packages/networkx-1.3-py2.6.egg/networkx/algorithms/shortest_paths/weighted.py", line 119, in dijkstra_path_length
    (length,path)=single_source_dijkstra(G,source, weight = weight)
  File "/Library/Python/2.6/site-packages/networkx-1.3-py2.6.egg/networkx/algorithms/shortest_paths/weighted.py", line 424, in single_source_dijkstra
    edata=iter(G[v].items())
  File "/Library/Python/2.6/site-packages/networkx-1.3-py2.6.egg/networkx/classes/graph.py", line 323, in __getitem__
    return self.adj[n]
KeyError: <pizza.pepperoni object at 0x100ea2810>

Any idea as to what the error is, or what should I add to my pizza class so as not to get this KeyError?

Edit: I have correctly formatted edges. I do not know if objects can be processed as nodes.

Answer 1

, networkx . , , , networkx:

import networkx as NX
import string
import random

G = NX.Graph()    # initialize the graph

# just generate some synthetic data for the nodes and edges:
my_nodes = [ ch for ch in string.ascii_uppercase ]
my_nodes2 = list(my_nodes)
random.shuffle(my_nodes2)
my_edges = [ t for t in zip(my_nodes, my_nodes2) if not t[0]==t[1] ]

# now add the edges and nodes to the networkx graph object:
G.add_nodes_from(my_nodes)
G.add_edges_from(my_edges)

# look at the graph properties:
In [87]: len(G.nodes())
Out[87]: 26

In [88]: len(G.edges())
Out[88]: 25

In [89]: G.edges()[:5]
Out[89]: [('A', 'O'), ('A', 'W'), ('C', 'U'), ('C', 'F'), ('B', 'L')]

# likewise, shortest path calculation is straightforward
In [86]: NX.shortest_path(G, source='A', target='D', weighted=False)
Out[86]: ['A', 'W', 'R', 'D']

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