## for some reason we cannot add the name attribute to the nodes (this used to work)
            #graphs[graphCount].add_node(node1name, label= node1, x = node1x, y = node1y, name=node1, size=node1Size )
            #graphs[graphCount].add_node(node2name, label= node2, x = node2x, y = node2y, name=node2, size=node2Size )