Changes
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.. currentmodule:: objgraph

2.0.1 (2015-07-28)
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- Avoid creating reference cycles between the stack frame and the local
  ``objects`` variable in :func:`by_type`, :func:`count`, and
  :func:`typestats`.

  Fixes `issue 22 <https://github.com/mgedmin/objgraph/pull/22>`_.  Contributed
  by Erik Bray.


2.0.0 (2015-04-18)
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- :func:`show_refs` and :func:`show_backrefs` now accept a file-like object
  (via the new ``output`` argument) as an alternative to a filename.

- Made internal helper methods private. This includes :func:`find_chain`,
  :func:`show_graph`, :func:`obj_node_id`, :func:`obj_label`, :func:`quote`,
  :func:`long_typename`, :func:`safe_repr`, :func:`short_repr`, 
  :func:`gradient`, :func:`edge_label`, and :func:`_program_in_path`.

- Correctly determine the name of old-style classes in :func:`count`,
  :func:`by_type`, and graph drawing functions.

  Fixes `issue 16 <https://github.com/mgedmin/objgraph/pull/16>`_.  Contributed
  by Mike Lambert.


1.8.1 (2014-05-15)
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- Do not expect file objects to have an ``encoding`` attribute.  Makes objgraph
  compatible with Eventlet's monkey-patching.

  Fixes `issue 6 <https://github.com/mgedmin/objgraph/pull/6>`_.  Contributed
  by Jakub Stasiak.


1.8.0 (2014-02-13)
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- Moved to GitHub.

- Python 3.4 support (`LP#1270872 <http://launchpad.net/bugs/1270872>`_).

- New function: :func:`is_proper_module`.

- New ``shortnames`` argument for :func:`typestats`, :func:`most_common_types`,
  :func:`show_most_common_types`, :func:`show_growth`, :func:`show_refs`,
  and :func:`show_backrefs`.

  :func:`count` and :func:`by_type` accept fully-qualified type names now.

  Fixes `issue 4 <https://github.com/mgedmin/objgraph/issues/4>`_.


1.7.2 (2012-10-23)
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- Bugfix: setup.py sdist was broken on Python 2.7 (UnicodeDecodeError in
  tarfile).

- The ``filename`` argument for :func:`show_refs` and :func:`show_backrefs` now
  allows arbitrary image formats, not just PNG.  Patch by `Riccardo
  Murri <https://launchpad.net/~rmurri>`_.

- Temporary dot files are now named `objgraph-*.dot` instead of `tmp*.dot`.

- Python 3.3 support: no code changes, but some tests started failing because
  the new and improved dictionary implementation no longer holds references to
  str objects used as dict keys.

- Added a tox.ini for convenient multi-Python testing.


1.7.1 (2011-12-11)
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- Bugfix: non-ASCII characters in object representations would break graph
  generation on Python 3.x, in some locales (e.g. with LC_ALL=C).  Reported and
  fixed by `Stefano Rivera <https://launchpad.net/~stefanor>`_.

- Bugfix: setup.py was broken on Python 3.x

- Bugfix: dot.exe/xdot.exe were not found on Windows (`LP#767239
  <http://launchpad.net/bugs/767239>`_).

- Documentation updates: document the forgotten :func:`find_ref_chain`,
  update :func:`show_chain` prototype.


1.7.0 (2011-03-11)
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- New function: :func:`find_ref_chain`.

- New ``backrefs`` argument for :func:`show_chain`.

- New function: :func:`get_leaking_objects`, based on `a blog post by
  Kristján Valur
  <http://blog.ccpgames.com/kristjan/2010/12/08/finding-c-reference-leaks-using-the-gc-module/>`_.

- New ``objects`` argument for :func:`count`, :func:`typestats`,
  :func:`most_common_types`, :func:`show_most_common_types`, and
  :func:`by_type`.

- Edges pointing to function attributes such as __defaults__ or __globals__
  are now labeled.

- Edge labels that are not simple strings now show the type.

- Bugfix: '\0' and other unsafe characters used in a dictionary key could
  break graph generation.

- Bugfix: show_refs(..., filename='graph.dot') would then go to complain
  about unrecognized file types and then produce a png.


1.6.0 (2010-12-18)
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- Python 3 support, thanks to Stefano Rivera (fixes `LP#687601
  <http://launchpad.net/bugs/687601>`_).

- Removed weird weakref special-casing.


1.5.1 (2010-12-09)
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- Avoid test failures in uncollectable-garbage.txt (fixes `LP#686731
  <http://launchpad.net/bugs/686731>`_).

- Added HACKING.txt (later renamed to HACKING.rst).


1.5.0 (2010-12-05)
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- Show frame objects as well (fixes `LP#361704
  <http://launchpad.net/bugs/361704>`_).

- New functions: :func:`show_growth`, :func:`show_chain`.

- :func:`find_backref_chain` returns ``[obj]`` instead of ``None`` when a chain
  could not be found.  This makes ``show_chain(find_backref_chain(...), ...)``
  not break.

- Show how many references were skipped from the output of
  :func:`show_refs`/:func:`show_backrefs` by specifying ``too_many``.

- Make :func:`show_refs` descend into modules.

- Do not highlight classes that define a ``__del__``, highlight only instances of
  those classes.

- Option to show reference counts in :func:`show_refs`/:func:`show_backrefs`.

- Add `Sphinx <http://pypi.python.org/pypi/Sphinx>`_ documentation and a PyPI
  long description.


1.4.0 (2010-11-03)
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- Compatibility with Python 2.4 and 2.5 (``tempfile.NamedTemporaryFile`` has no
  ``delete`` argument).

- New function: :func:`most_common_types`.


1.3.1 (2010-07-17)
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- Rebuild an sdist with no missing files (fixes `LP#606604
  <http://launchpad.net/bugs/606604>`_).

- Added MANIFEST.in and a Makefile to check that setup.py sdist generates
  source distributions with no files missing.


1.3 (2010-07-13)
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- Highlight objects with a ``__del__`` method.

- Fixes `LP#483411 <http://launchpad.net/bugs/483411>`_: suggest always passing
  ``[obj]`` to :func:`show_refs`, :func:`show_backrefs`, since obj might be a
  list/tuple.

- Fixes `LP#514422 <http://launchpad.net/bugs/514422>`_: :func:`show_refs`,
  :func:`show_backrefs` don't create files in the current working directory any
  more.  Instead they accept a filename argument, which can be a .dot file or a
  .png file.  If None or not specified, those functions will try to spawn xdot
  as before.

- New extra_info argument to graph-generating functions (patch by Thouis Jones,
  `LP#558914 <http://launchpad.net/bugs/558914>`_).

- setup.py should work with distutils now (`LP#604430
  <http://launchpad.net/bugs/604430>`_, thanks to Randy Heydon).


1.2 (2009-03-25)
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- Project website, public source repository, uploaded to PyPI.

- No code changes.


1.1 (2008-09-10)
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- New function: :func:`show_refs` for showing forward references.

- New functions: :func:`typestats` and :func:`show_most_common_types`.

- Object boxes are less crammed with useless information (such as IDs).

- Spawns `xdot <http://pypi.python.org/pypi/xdot>`_ if it is available.


1.0 (2008-06-14)
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- First public release.
