Access igraph R objects from Python

Access igraph R objects from Python

I have a graph object created with the igraph R package. If I understand
the architecture of the igraph software package correctly the igraph R
package is an interface to use igraph from R. Then since there is also a
igraph Python interface I wonder if it is possible to access my igraph
object created with R via Python directly. Or if the only way to access
and igraph R object from Python is to export the igraph R object with
write.graph() in R and then import it with the igraph R package.