Constructor Arguments

The simplest way to create a motif is to pass a motif-syntax string to the dotmotif.Motif constructor:

from dotmotif import Motif

m = Motif("""

A -> B
B -> C
C -> A
""")

You can also pass additional keyword arguments to this constructor to achieve different results:

Argument	Type, Default	Behavior
enforce_inequality	bool: False	Enforce inequality; in other words, whether two nodes should be permitted to be aliases for the same node.
exclude_automorphisms	bool: False	Automatically ignore automorphisms when returning results. To learn more, read here.
ignore_direction	bool: False	Disregard direction when generating the database query
limit	int: None	A limit (if any) to impose on the quantity of query results.
parser	dotmotif.parser.Parser	If specified, which Motif parser to use. Defaults to the latest version.
pretty_print	bool: True	Deprecated. If outputs from this motif query should be printed in a human-readable format.
validators	List of dotmotif.Validator	A list of validators to use to verify the motif at compilation and optimization time.