Standard graph API?

[Magnus Lie Hetland]

In article <mailman.2228.1093282813.5135.python-list at python.org>,
Robert Brewer wrote:
>> Is there any interest in a (hypothetical) standard graph API (with
>> 'graph' meaning a network, consisting of nodes and edges)?
>
>1) Yes!

:)

>2) Only if it's in C.

That would be up to the implementer. I'm only talking about defining
an API -- not the implementation. (Cf. the DB-API.)

[snip]
>3) It would have to accept arbitrary objects. No "make your class a
>subclass of GraphNode" garbage.

Of course. Signature-based polymorphism and protocols all the way :)

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