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:mod:`sphinx.ext.inheritance_diagram` -- Include inheritance diagrams
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.. module:: sphinx.ext.inheritance_diagram
:synopsis: Support for displaying inheritance diagrams via graphviz.
.. versionadded:: 0.6
This extension allows you to include inheritance diagrams, rendered via the
:mod:`Graphviz extension <sphinx.ext.graphviz>`.
It adds this directive:
.. rst:directive:: inheritance-diagram
This directive has one or more arguments, each giving a module or class
name. Class names can be unqualified; in that case they are taken to exist
in the currently described module (see :rst:dir:`py:module`).
For each given class, and each class in each given module, the base classes
are determined. Then, from all classes and their base classes, a graph is
generated which is then rendered via the graphviz extension to a directed
graph.
This directive supports an option called ``parts`` that, if given, must be an
integer, advising the directive to remove that many parts of module names
from the displayed names. (For example, if all your class names start with
``lib.``, you can give ``:parts: 1`` to remove that prefix from the displayed
node names.)
It also supports a ``private-bases`` flag option; if given, private base
classes (those whose name starts with ``_``) will be included.
.. versionchanged:: 1.1
Added ``private-bases`` option; previously, all bases were always
included.
New config values are:
.. confval:: inheritance_graph_attrs
A dictionary of graphviz graph attributes for inheritance diagrams.
For example::
inheritance_graph_attrs = dict(rankdir="LR", size='"6.0, 8.0"',
fontsize=14, ratio='compress')
.. confval:: inheritance_node_attrs
A dictionary of graphviz node attributes for inheritance diagrams.
For example::
inheritance_node_attrs = dict(shape='ellipse', fontsize=14, height=0.75,
color='dodgerblue1', style='filled')
.. confval:: inheritance_edge_attrs
A dictionary of graphviz edge attributes for inheritance diagrams.