Networkx : Convert multigraph into simple graph with weighted edges

One very simple way of doing it is just to pass your multigraph as input to Graph.

import networkx as nx

G = nx.MultiGraph()
G.add_nodes_from([1,2,3])
G.add_edges_from([(1, 2), (1, 2), (1, 3), (2, 3), (2, 3)])

G2 = nx.Graph(G)

This will create an undirected graph of your multigraph where multiple edges are merged into single edges. However, if you have different attributes for the edges that get merged, I don’t know if there’s any way of determining which attribute is kept.

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