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NAME

       pycallgraph - command-line interface to pycallgraph

SYNOPSIS

       pycallgraph [OPTION]... pythonfile

DESCRIPTION

       This manual page documents pycallgraph.	This manual page was originally written for the Debian distribution.

       pycallgraph  is	a  program  that  creates  call  graphs  for  Python programs.	pycallgraph is the command line interface to pycallgraph's
       make_dot_graph method, which generates a call graph and stores it as an image in the specified image file.

       -o, --output-file

	      the file name of the output image. Default: pycallgraph.png

       -f, --image-format

	      the image format of imagefile. Default: png

       -q, --quiet

	      Suppress status output to the console.

       -t, --tool

	      the tool from GraphViz to use. Default: dot

       -s, --stdlib

	      include standard library functions in the trace. Default: False

       -i, --include

	      wildcard pattern of modules to include in the output. You can have multiple include arguments

       -e, --exclude

	      wildcard pattern of modules to exclude in the output. You can have multiple exclude arguments

       -d, --max-depth

	      maximum stack depth to trace

       --exclude-timing

	      wildcard pattern of modules to exclude in time measurement. You can have multiple exclude arguments

       --include-timing

	      wildcard pattern of modules to include in time measurement. You can have multiple include arguments

EXAMPLES

       Create a call graph called pycallgraph.png on myprogram.py:

	      pycallgraph ./myprogram.py

       Create a call graph of a standard Python installation script with command line parameters:

	      pycallgraph --output-file=setup.png -- setup.py --dry-run install

       Only see the module "distutils" within the execution of easy_install:

	      pycallgraph --include=distutils.* /usr/bin/easy_install

AUTHORS

       pycallgraph and pycallgraph were written by Gerald Kaszuba <pycallgraph@slowchop.com>.

       This manual page was originally written by Jan Alonzo <jmalonzo@unpluggable.com>, for the Debian GNU/Linux system.

pycallgraph version 0.5.1					    2008-07-08							    PYCALLGRAPH(1)