dgl.DGLGraph.to_canonical_etype¶

DGLGraph.to_canonical_etype(etype)[source]¶

Convert an edge type to the corresponding canonical edge type in the graph.

A canonical edge type is a string triplet (str, str, str) for source node type, edge type and destination node type.

The function expects the given edge type name can uniquely identify a canonical edge type. DGL will raise error if this is not the case.

Parameters: etype (str or (str, str, str)) – If etype is an edge type (str), it returns the corresponding canonical edge type in the graph. If etype is already a canonical edge type, it directly returns the input unchanged.
Returns: The canonical edge type corresponding to the edge type.
Return type: (str, str, str)

Examples

The following example uses PyTorch backend.

>>> import dgl
>>> import torch

Create a heterograph.

>>> g = dgl.heterograph({
...     ('user', 'follows', 'user'): ([0, 1], [1, 2]),
...     ('user', 'plays', 'game'): ([0, 1, 1, 2], [0, 0, 1, 1]),
...     ('developer', 'follows', 'game'): ([0, 1], [0, 1])
... })

Map an edge type to its corresponding canonical edge type.

>>> g.to_canonical_etype('plays')
('user', 'plays', 'game')
>>> g.to_canonical_etype(('user', 'plays', 'game'))
('user', 'plays', 'game')