pydiagrams 0.7.4

Generate software diagrams using Python syntax

pydiagrams

pydiagrams is a tool to generate software diagrams by using Python as a DSL. pydiagrams providers a framework for describing a software diagram as python code, and translating into it source code specific to a rendering program.

It can generate the following types of diagrams:

• Flowcharts
• Database "View" diagrams / Data flow diagrams
• UML Component diagrams
• Integration Architecture diagrams

These diagrams are can be generated via a choice of rendering programs:

• PlantUML
• Graphviz
• yEd (as GraphML)
• Blockdiag

Motivation

Diagram generation languages (such as PlantUML, Graphviz, Blockdiag) provide general-purpose diagrams, but require the user to learn a specific syntax. They each have certain strengths and weaknesses that sometimes require switching from one format to another. pydiagrams instead provides a simple python-DSL that allows the user to write a single diagram that is can then be translated into the rendering program of choice.