Feature Request: Show dot graph in interactive window

[p-glaum]

Hi @ricnogfer,

thanks a lot for this cool package, it helps a lot for debugging purposes of big PyPSA networks!

I was wondering if it is possible to plot a or even an interactive dot plot inside an interactive window or Jupyter notebook. Because currently, I always export an SVG and open this separately.

[ricnogfer]

Hi @p-glaum,

Thanks for the appreciation!

I never tried what you are asking myself but will give it a spin once I have an opportunity - will post the findings here.

[coroa]

Maybe you just need to add a few glue methods to https://github.com/jrfonseca/xdot.py ?

[ricnogfer]

Thanks for the suggestion @coroa!

This feature request is high on our priority list and it will most likely be solved in the beginning of next year. Succinctly, we are aiming to enable PyPSATopo with the following capabilities (this will cover many use-cases):

• Display the generated DOT file in a separated graphical console (using, e.g., xdot.py for that purpose) when PyPSATopo is launched from a terminal (users will have to enable a flag when launching the tool).
• Display the generated DOT file in a separated graphical console (using, e.g., xdot.py for that purpose) when PyPSATopo function generate is called from another Python script (user will have to enable a flag when calling the function).
• Display the generated SVG file in a cell when PyPSATopo function generate is called inside Jupyter. [DONE]

[ricnogfer]

A new version of PyPSATopo (1.0.4) has been released. This release is able to display the result of generating the topographical representation of a PyPSA-based network in Jupyter (@p-glaum, @coroa, feel free to test it and report back if it does not work properly). To illustrate:

Concerning PyPSATopo being able to display the result of generating the topographical representation of a PyPSA-based network in a separated graphical console using xdot.py, this requires more thought given that this Python library is rather heavy (i.e. relies on other libraries). In addition, this library seems to not work on macOS.

[p-glaum]

cool! Thanks a lot.

[coroa]

In addition, this library seems to not work on macOS

I am using xdot on mac osx. Installed with brew, though.

[ricnogfer]

Thanks for the clarification @coroa - will look into this as soon as possible!