# circuits 2.1.0 documentation

# `circuits.tools` – Development Tools

Often you will end up needing to do some debugging or inspection of your system. The circuits.tools package provides a set of development tools for debugging, inspection and analysis.

`circuits.tools.``graph`(x, name=None)

  Display a directed graph of the Component structure of x

  Parameters: | x (Component or Manager) – A Component or Manager to graph name (str) – A name for the graph (defaults to x’s name)

  @return: A directed graph representing x’s Component sturcture. @rtype: str