Sphinx-pyreverse

A simple sphinx extension to generate a UML diagram from python modules.

Install

Install with::

pip install sphinx-pyreverse

Usage

Add "sphinx_pyreverse" to the extensions list in your conf.py (make sure it is in the PYTHONPATH).

Call the directive with path to python module as content. The :classes: and :packages: flags specify which UML diagrams to show.:

.. uml:: {{modulename}}
    :classes:
    :packages:

Requires pyreverse from pylint.

Options

To configure usage, in your conf.py

• sphinx_pyreverse_output (see --output), default is "png"
• sphinx_pyreverse_filter_mode (see --filter_mode), default is None
• sphinx_pyreverse_class (see --class), default is None
• sphinx_pyreverse_show_ancestors (see --show_ancestors), default is None
• sphinx_pyreverse_all_ancestors (see --all_ancestors), default is None
• sphinx_pyreverse_show_associated (see --show_associated), default is None
• sphinx_pyreverse_all_associated (see --all_associated), default is None
• sphinx_pyreverse_show_builtin (see --show_builtin), default is None
• sphinx_pyreverse_module_names (see --module_names), default is None
• sphinx_pyreverse_only_classnames (see --only_classnames), default is None
• sphinx_pyreverse_ignore (see --ignore), default is None

Changing the directive

To override the directive, which defaults to 'uml' set the SPHINX_PYREVERSE_DIRECTIVE environment variable to whatever you like.

Troubleshooting

sphinx-pyreverse uses sphinx-docs' logging api to write information to the log-files.

To use it run your sphinx-build command with -v -v -v -w $(pwd)/sphinx.log .

For more information see:

• -v switch
• -w switch