Code2Flow Explorations¶

This is a look at what code2flow does. It does not appear to be on pypi but you can use git to get it and do the usual installation:

git clone https://github.com/scottrogowski/code2flow.git
cd code2flow
python setup.py install

A dump of the --help:

usage: code2flow [-h] [-o OUTFILE] [--language LANGUAGE] [--hidelegend] [-d]
                 [--version]
                 files [files ...]

See flow charts of your source code. This EXPERIMENTAL script is useful for
documentation and code refactoring in simple projects

positional arguments:
  files                 The source file you are trying to graph. Currently,
                        only handles python and javascript

optional arguments:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  -o OUTFILE, --outfile OUTFILE
                        Filetype can be dot, gv, png, ps, svg, etc. Default is
                        `out.png`
  --language LANGUAGE
  --hidelegend
  -d, --debug
  --version             show program's version number and exit

A fairly minimal interface.

file_name = plugin.__file__.rstrip('c')
command = 'code2flow --language py -o plugin_flow.png {0}'.format(file_name)
subprocess.call(shlex.split(command))

../../../../_images/plugin_flow.png

It does not seem to be as successful as pyreverse in finding things.

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