Support for displaying and analyzing reference graphs of Python objects.
APACHE-2.0 License
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The refcycle package provides support for creating, analysing, and visualising graphs of Python objects and the references between them. It's intended to aid in debugging reference-related problems, for example:
gc.garbage
.ObjectGraph
_ class representing a collection of objects and references.strongly connected components
_ of the object graph.Graphviz
_.Requires Python 3.7 or later.
The export_image
_ method for exporting a graph in image form requires
Graphviz
_ to be installed.
Refcycle is CPython only.
Up-to-date documentation can be found on "Read the Docs", at http://refcycle.readthedocs.org/en/latest/index.html.
The latest release of refcycle is available from the Python Package Index, at
https://pypi.python.org/pypi/refcycle. On most systems, it can be installed in
the usual way using pip
::
python -m pip install refcycle
The currently-in-development version can be obtained from the project's GitHub homepage: https://github.com/mdickinson/refcycle.
The refcycle package is copyright (c) 2013-2023 Mark Dickinson.
Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. See the License for the specific language governing permissions and limitations under the License.
.. _Graphviz: http://www.graphviz.org .. _ObjectGraph: http://refcycle.readthedocs.org/en/latest/reference/object_graph.html#refcycle.object_graph.ObjectGraph .. _export_image: http://refcycle.readthedocs.org/en/latest/reference/object_graph.html#refcycle.object_graph.ObjectGraph.export_image .. _strongly connected components: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strongly_connected_component
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