""" ================== Words/Ladder Graph ================== Generate an undirected graph over the 5757 5-letter words in the datafile `words_dat.txt.gz`. Two words are connected by an edge if they differ in one letter, resulting in 14,135 edges. This example is described in Section 1.1 of Donald E. Knuth, "The Stanford GraphBase: A Platform for Combinatorial Computing", ACM Press, New York, 1993. http://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth/sgb.html The data file can be found at: - https://github.com/networkx/networkx/blob/master/examples/graph/words_dat.txt.gz """ import gzip from string import ascii_lowercase as lowercase import networkx as nx def generate_graph(words): G = nx.Graph(name="words") lookup = {c: lowercase.index(c) for c in lowercase} def edit_distance_one(word): for i in range(len(word)): left, c, right = word[0:i], word[i], word[i + 1 :] j = lookup[c] # lowercase.index(c) for cc in lowercase[j + 1 :]: yield left + cc + right candgen = ( (word, cand) for word in sorted(words) for cand in edit_distance_one(word) if cand in words ) G.add_nodes_from(words) for word, cand in candgen: G.add_edge(word, cand) return G def words_graph(): """Return the words example graph from the Stanford GraphBase""" fh = gzip.open("words_dat.txt.gz", "r") words = set() for line in fh.readlines(): line = line.decode() if line.startswith("*"): continue w = str(line[0:5]) words.add(w) return generate_graph(words) G = words_graph() print("Loaded words_dat.txt containing 5757 five-letter English words.") print("Two words are connected if they differ in one letter.") print(f"Graph has {nx.number_of_nodes(G)} nodes with {nx.number_of_edges(G)} edges") print(f"{nx.number_connected_components(G)} connected components") for (source, target) in [("chaos", "order"), ("nodes", "graph"), ("pound", "marks")]: print(f"Shortest path between {source} and {target} is") try: sp = nx.shortest_path(G, source, target) for n in sp: print(n) except nx.NetworkXNoPath: print("None")