networkx draw nodes on a line in order with curved edges

Question

I would like to draw a set of nodes on a line with spaces in between that correspond to the difference in a node property (here: the time when the node entered the system). I would then like to draw curved edges between these nodes. Is this possible in networkx?

I have attached a sketch of the layout that I would like to achieve.

Answer 1

You can control the position of your nodes by passing a dictionary of the positions (x,y) of your nodes to the nx.draw function (see doc here ). To add a curve to your arrows, you can use connectionstyle='arc3,rad=-0.7' (with rad taking whatever value you want for the curve) in the nx.draw function (see doc here ).

See example below:

import networkx as nx
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt

G=nx.DiGraph()
N_nodes=7

[G.add_node(i) for i in range(N_nodes)]

G.add_edge(0,1)
G.add_edge(2,4)
G.add_edge(2,5)

posx=[0,1,3,5,6,7,9]
posy=N_nodes*[0]
pos={i:[posx[i],posy[i]] for i in range(N_nodes)}

nx.draw(G,pos=pos,connectionstyle="arc3,rad=-0.7",edge_color='blue')
plt.ylim([-0.5,0.5])