If you want to play around with SuiteSparse:GraphBLAS using Python, try python-graphblas (https://python-graphblas.readthedocs.io/). And this is a shameless plug. I'm one of the authors of the Python wrapper.
Anyone who is serious about graph analysis in Python using linear algebra should check out GraphBLAS (graphblas.org). The inclusion of semirings makes things like SSSP and BFS extremely elegant on sparse adjacency matrices.
The main implementation is SuiteSparse::GraphBLAS, a C library which has two Python bindings (search for grblas or pygraphblas). Disclosure: I'm the author of grblas. Both are available on conda-forge for easy installation.