# How to use igraph\_barabasi\_game() from phyton-igraph in Google Colab

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**Created:** [19 November 2020 21:33 UTC](https://igraph.discourse.group/t/how-to-use-igraph-barabasi-game-from-phyton-igraph-in-google-colab/520 "2020-11-19T21:33:40Z")\
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Hi!  
I need to use the method igraph\_barabasi\_game() from phyton-igraph library in the google colab notebook , but i can’t find there.

I’d already install the phyton-igraph using this line:

!pip install python-igraph

and import igraph class (I believe that is a class…) using this line:

import igraph as ig

but when I try to find the igraph\_barabasi\_game, I don’t find anything…

I tried to write :

ig.Graph.

and

ig.

but no method with the name appears to me in the notebook.  
I’m new using phyton and google colab and Igraph, so I need some help with this beggining…  
Thank’s

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**Post date:** [19 November 2020 22:13 UTC](https://igraph.discourse.group/t/how-to-use-igraph-barabasi-game-from-phyton-igraph-in-google-colab/520/2 "2020-11-19T22:13:05Z")

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That function belongs to the C interface of igraph.

Since you are using igraph from Python, look the documentation of the Python interface: [https://igraph.org/python/doc/igraph.GraphBase-class.html#Barabasi](https://igraph.org/python/doc/igraph.GraphBase-class.html#Barabasi)