title: Making an interactive network topology diagram using Python or something else?
body: <p>I've got masses of network information held in a SQLite database. I want to draw a diagram based on this information in the style a network diagram.</p>
  
  <p>I want it to be interactive, in a sense that at the highest level only network range communication can be seen, and as you move deeper into the diagram you begin to see individual nodes (switches, routers, firewalls, hosts, servers, etc) all linked together.</p>
  
  <p>I'd like this process to be as smooth as possible, allowing you to zoom in using the scroll wheel in a location of the diagram and it expands as you do so. Allowing you to then click and drag around the map. However I'd like to get basics down first, so thinking that I should start with drawing the diagram in HTML and have hyper-links for nodes allowing the user to move around and deeper into the diagram using a browser.</p>
  
  <p>It is also crucial that the user would be able to able to capture their view as a still image, which I'd guess would be far more easily done in HTML.</p>
  
  <p>To get to the point I'm asking where I might start to do this. I've looked at PyQT, Graphviz, outputting to HTML etc. I'm just trying to decide what to use and generally how to go about doing this. I'm reasonably good with Python but I am open to suggestion of other languages. </p>
  
  <p>If you guys think Python can do this, which Python? 2.7 or 3? I've been considering making a move to 3 for a while, is it time?</p>
  
  <p>Thanks in advance!</p>