Your code moves faster than the digrams you created for the documentation. How about a Python tool that you can add to your CI/CD pipeline that generates UML diagram for each version of your code
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In spite of designing and thinking through the class structure before coding, developers might have to restructure and refactor the code during implementation. It is also a good idea to generate UML diagrams from code and see if it matches the actual design.
I've explored a variety of code diagram generators, and the one that stood out for me was a Pyreverse example
Pyreverse is a set of utilities to reverse engineering Python code. It uses a representation of a Python project in a class hierarchy which can be used to extract any information (such as generating UML diagrams or unit tests, such as pyargo and py2tests).
The package is now a part of pylint so to install it. You need pylint installed in your python environment.
Let's choose a project; feel free to choose any python project. I'm using Python requests library's source code
2. Create a python virtualenv with pylint installed. Activate the environment.
3. Use pyreverse command to create the UML diagram image
The generated image looks something like this. (Click to open)
