Note
This is the documentation for the current state of the development branch of rustworkx. The documentation or APIs here can change prior to being released.
rustworkx.graph_bfs_search#
- graph_bfs_search(graph, source=None, visitor=None)#
Breadth-first traversal of an undirected graph.
The pseudo-code for the BFS algorithm is listed below, with the annotated event points, for which the given visitor object will be called with the appropriate method.
BFS(G, s) for each vertex u in V color[u] := WHITE end for color[s] := GRAY EQUEUE(Q, s) discover vertex s while (Q != Ø) u := DEQUEUE(Q) for each vertex v in Adj[u] (u,v) is a tree edge if (color[v] = WHITE) color[v] = GRAY else (u,v) is a non - tree edge if (color[v] = GRAY) (u,v) has a gray target ... else if (color[v] = BLACK) (u,v) has a black target ... end for color[u] := BLACK finish vertex u end while
If an exception is raised inside the callback function, the graph traversal will be stopped immediately. You can exploit this to exit early by raising a
StopSearch
exception, in which case the search function will return but without raising back the exception. You can also prune part of the search tree by raisingPruneSearch
.In the following example we keep track of the tree edges:
import rustworkx as rx from rustworkx.visit import BFSVisitor class TreeEdgesRecorder(BFSVisitor): def __init__(self): self.edges = [] def tree_edge(self, edge): self.edges.append(edge) graph = rx.PyGraph() graph.extend_from_edge_list([(1, 3), (0, 1), (2, 1), (0, 2)]) vis = TreeEdgesRecorder() rx.bfs_search(graph, [0], vis) print('Tree edges:', vis.edges)
Tree edges: [(0, 2, None), (0, 1, None), (1, 3, None)]
Note
Graph can not be mutated while traversing.
- Parameters:
graph (PyGraph) – The graph to be used.
source (List[int]) – An optional list of node indices to use as the starting nodes for the breadth-first search. If this is not specified then a source will be chosen arbitrarly and repeated until all components of the graph are searched.
visitor – A visitor object that is invoked at the event points inside the algorithm. This should be a subclass of
BFSVisitor
. This has a default value ofNone
as a backwards compatibility artifact (to preserve argument ordering from an earlier version) but it is a required argument and will raise aTypeError
if not specified.