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I would like to improve my graph. There are problems as follow:

  1. how to create a consistent graph.the graph itself is not consistent everytime i execute / run the code, it will generate different images. The inconsistent graph is shown in the url.

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  1. how to customize the whole graph / picture size and to make it bigger
  2. how to set a permanent position for an object 'a' so that it will consistently appears at the first / top position
  3. how to customize length of arrow for each relationship.

Appreciate if anyone could give some notes or advices

This is my codes:

Unique_liss= ['a', 'b', 'c', 'd', 'e', 'f', 'g', 'h', 'i', 'j', 'k', 'l', 'm'] edgesList= [('a', 'b'), ('b', 'c '), ('c ', 'd'), ('d', 'e'), ('d', 'f'), ('e', 'g'), ('f', 'g'), ('g', 'h'), ('h', 'i '), ('i ', 'j'), ('j', 'k'), ('j', 'l'), ('k', 'm'), ('l', 'm')] import networkx as nx g = nx.DiGraph() g.add_nodes_from(Unique_liss) g.add_edges_from(edgesList) nx.to_pandas_adjacency(g) G = nx.DiGraph() for node in edgesList: G.add_edge(*node,sep=',') A = nx.adjacency_matrix(G).A nx.draw(G, with_labels=True, node_size = 2000, node_color = 'skyblue')
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In order to have deterministic node layouts, you can use one of NetworkX's layouts, which allow you to specify a seed. Here's an example using nx.spring_layout for the above graph:

from matplotlib import pyplot as plt seed = 31 pos = nx.spring_layout(G, seed=seed) plt.figure(figsize=(10,6)) nx.draw(G, pos=pos, with_labels=True, node_size = 1500, node_color = 'skyblue')

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You'll get the exact same layout if you re-run the above.

In order to customize the graph size you have several options. The simplest one baing setting the figure size as plt.figure(figsize=(x,y)) as above. And you can also control the size of the graph within the figure using the scale paramater in nx.spring_layout.

As per the last point, it looks like you cannot set specific arrow sizes for each edge. From the [docs](arrowsize : int, optional (default=10)) what you have is:

arrowsize : int, optional (default=10)

So you can only set this value to an int, which will result in an equal size for all edge arrows.

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dear @yatu, unluciky , i got this error after i added on the aobve code: TypeError: fruchterman_reingold_layout() got an unexpected keyword argument 'seed' .
this is my full codes: G = nx.DiGraph() for node in edgesList: G.add_edge(*node,sep=',') A = nx.adjacency_matrix(G).A seed = 31 pos = nx.spring_layout(G, seed=seed) plt.figure(figsize=(10,6)) nx.draw(G, pos=pos, with_labels=True, node_size = 1500, seed=seed, node_color = 'skyblue')
Which version @amj ? Check the docs, the layout does have a seed param networkx.github.io/documentation/stable/reference/generated/…
dear @yatu, let me check the version. anyway thank you.
i change a little part of the code with this >>import numpy as np seed = 31 np.random.seed(seed) It is work!.thank you @yatu
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For anyone who doesn't get to read the comments in answers. I found that as @amj mentions in the comments, that on top of @yatu's response above, you need to set the seed in numpy.

import numpy as np seed = 31 np.random.seed(seed)
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