prog/lib to draw graphs

[John Hunter]

>>>>> "Florian" == Florian Lindner <Florian.Lindner at xgm.de> writes:

    Florian> Hello, I'm looking for a program or python library to
    Florian> draw graphs.  They should look like the that:


    Florian> /--------\ /--------\ | Node A | ------ belongs to ---->
    Florian> | Node B | \--------/ \--------/

    Florian> Which is a result of the function call like that:

    Florian> connectNodes(firstNode, secondNode, description,
    Florian> lineStyle) connectNodes("Node A", "Node B", "belongs to",
    Florian> dashed)

    Florian> It should have a open scalable vector format as output
    Florian> (DVI, SVG, PDF, ...)  and should be able to make
    Florian> automatic optimal placement of the items.  Do you know
    Florian> something like that?  Thx, Florian --
    Florian> http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

graphviz is a sophisticated graph drawing program

  http://www.research.att.com/sw/tools/graphviz/

There is a python interface

    http://www.cs.virginia.edu/~jg9h/graphiz/

JDH