# Python with igraph

**URL:** <https://igraph.discourse.group/t/python-with-igraph/439>\
**Category:** Usage\
**Tags:** Python\
**Created:** [13 September 2020 19:29 UTC](https://igraph.discourse.group/t/python-with-igraph/439 "2020-09-13T19:29:52Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![vivek](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/77aa72/32.png) [@vivek](https://igraph.discourse.group/u/vivek)\
**Post date:** [13 September 2020 19:29 UTC](https://igraph.discourse.group/t/python-with-igraph/439/1 "2020-09-13T19:29:53Z")

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Hi ,

I am using  
Python 3.8  
igraph 0.8.2  
OS: Windows 10  
Code:

```python
import igraph as ig
           print(ig. __version__ )
print("read")
ig=Graph()
movie = Graph.Read_GraphML(<FolderPath>//movies.GraphML")
print("read")
summary(movie)

```

Output:

```auto
PS C:\Users\intou\OneDrive\Desktop\igraph> & C:/Python3.8/python.exe c:/Users/intou/OneDrive/Desktop/igraph/abc.py
0.8.2
read
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "c:/Users/intou/OneDrive/Desktop/igraph/abc.py", line 11, in <module>
    movie = ig.Graph.Read_GraphML("<Folder Path>\\movies.GraphML")
NotImplementedError: Error at d:\build\igraph\igraph-0.8.2-msvc\src\foreign-graphml.c:1446: GraphML support is disabled, Unimplemented function call
PS C:\Users\intou\OneDrive\Desktop\igraph>       

```

Please let me know what wrong i am doing?

Regards  
Vivek

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**Author:** ![tamas](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/igraph.discourse.group/tamas/32/1261_2.png) [@tamas](https://igraph.discourse.group/u/tamas)\
**Post date:** [14 September 2020 09:34 UTC](https://igraph.discourse.group/t/python-with-igraph/439/2 "2020-09-14T09:34:55Z")

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The error message says it all:

> GraphML support is disabled

Your igraph version was built without GraphML support as this requires extra libraries on Windows. Please let us know how you installed `python-igraph` and then we can advise how you can get GraphML support with your version.

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**Author:** ![vivek](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/77aa72/32.png) [@vivek](https://igraph.discourse.group/u/vivek)\
**Post date:** [14 September 2020 22:27 UTC](https://igraph.discourse.group/t/python-with-igraph/439/3 "2020-09-14T22:27:44Z")

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Hi Tamas,

I installed python\_igraph-0.8.2-cp38-cp38-win\_amd64.whl along with  
lxml-4.5.2-cp38-cp38-win\_amd64.whl and pycairo-1.19.1-cp38-cp38-win\_amd64.whl

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**Author:** ![szhorvat](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/igraph.discourse.group/szhorvat/32/3_2.png) [@szhorvat](https://igraph.discourse.group/u/szhorvat)\
**Post date:** [15 September 2020 07:33 UTC](https://igraph.discourse.group/t/python-with-igraph/439/4 "2020-09-15T07:33:13Z")

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Please see here:

> [@Windows installation issue](https://igraph.discourse.group/t/windows-installation-issue/437/3):
>
> Yes, I believe that is also the case for the provided binary wheels from PyPI. We should still get that working, but at the moment it requires quite some changes, and I have not managed to get it working yet. For Anaconda we could use the provided libxml2. It should be significantly easier once we have switched to Cmake. Edit: this only concerns Windows, not any other platforms.

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**Author:** ![vivek](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/77aa72/32.png) [@vivek](https://igraph.discourse.group/u/vivek)\
**Post date:** [16 September 2020 15:06 UTC](https://igraph.discourse.group/t/python-with-igraph/439/5 "2020-09-16T15:06:16Z")

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Sorry, I did not understand.  
I feel it will be really nice if we have clear steps to setup the environment .