Delete node does not work if used from a method

[arpicheck]

Which Plugin?

python-scripting-plugin

Expected Behavior

del statement work from methods as well

Current Behavior

Using del statement works well when issued from the console, but does not have any effect, when used inside of a method.

Possible Solution

Steps to Reproduce

def removeNodes() for node in g.nodes: del node

removeNodes()

The above statement should result in all nodes removed from the graph. Instead, it has no effect. As far as I know, the plugin does not give any other solution for removing nodes.

I tried g.nodes.remove(...)

but couldn't figure out if this would work with any key.

Context

I can't use python scripts solving complex solutions. One has to always copy/paste scripts into console.

Your Environment

• Gephi Version used: Gephi 0.9.7 202208031831
• Plugin Version used: 0.9.2
• Operating System: Windows 8.1

[ypanagis]

You can actually both delete noes and run a Python script from the python script plugin. I have created a gist that should work for you.

The gist filters nodes that have a specific modularity class, adds them to a subgraph and deletes them. You can run it from the scripting plugin by giving >>> execfile("/path_to_script/script.py") .

See some more functionality of the scripting pluging at the official plugin documentation.

[ypanagis]

The above does not actually work if the del v part, for node v, is inside a function. Perhaps delete inside a function, operates on node copies, but this is just a speculation so far

[arpicheck]

Other reasoning could be that 'del' is overridden somehow and has no effect at al, or does something else we don't recognize.