Python equivalent of D3.js

Question

Can anyone recommend a Python library that can do interactive graph visualization?

I specifically want something like d3.js but for python

Answer 1

You can also choose to serialize your data and then visualize it in D3.js, as done here: Use Python & Pandas to Create a D3 Force Directed Network Diagram (It comes with a jupyter notebook as well!)

Here is the gist. You serialize your graph data in this format:

import json
json_data = {
  "nodes":[
    {"name":"Myriel","group":1},
    {"name":"Napoleon","group":1},
    {"name":"Mlle.Baptistine","group":1},
    {"name":"Mme.Magloire","group":1},
    {"name":"CountessdeLo","group":1},
  ],
  "links":[
    {"source":1,"target":0,"value":1},
    {"source":2,"target":0,"value":8},
    {"source":3,"target":0,"value":10},
    {"source":3,"target":2,"value":6},
    {"source":4,"target":0,"value":1},
    {"source":5,"target":0,"value":1},
  ]
}
filename_out = 'graph_data.json'
json_out = open(filename_out,'w')
json_out.write(json_data)
json_out.close()

Then you load the data in with d3.js:

d3.json("pcap_export.json", drawGraph);

For the routine drawGraph I refer you to the link, however.