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bfs_successors(G, source, depth_limit=None, sort_neighbors=None)

Notes

Based on http://www.ics.uci.edu/~eppstein/PADS/BFS.py by D. Eppstein, July 2004.The modifications to allow depth limits based on the Wikipedia article ":None:None:`Depth-limited-search`".

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Parameters

G : NetworkX graph
source : node: Specify starting node for breadth-first search
depth_limit : int, optional(default=len(G)): Specify the maximum search depth
sort_neighbors : function: A function that takes the list of neighbors of given node as input, and returns an iterator over these neighbors but with custom ordering.

Returns

succ: iterator: (node, successors) iterator where successors is the non-empty list of successors of :None:None:`node` in a breadth first search from :None:None:`source`. To appear in the iterator, :None:None:`node` must have successors.

Returns an iterator of successors in breadth-first-search from source.

Examples

>>> G = nx.path_graph(3)
... print(dict(nx.bfs_successors(G, 0)))
{0: [1], 1: [2]}

>>> H = nx.Graph()
... H.add_edges_from([(0, 1), (0, 2), (1, 3), (1, 4), (2, 5), (2, 6)])
... print(dict(nx.bfs_successors(H, 0)))
{0: [1, 2], 1: [3, 4], 2: [5, 6]}

>>> G = nx.Graph()
... nx.add_path(G, [0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6])
... nx.add_path(G, [2, 7, 8, 9, 10])
... print(dict(nx.bfs_successors(G, source=1, depth_limit=3)))
{1: [0, 2], 2: [3, 7], 3: [4], 7: [8]}

>>> G = nx.DiGraph()
... nx.add_path(G, [0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5])
... print(dict(nx.bfs_successors(G, source=3)))
{3: [4], 4: [5]}

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