Welcome to valparse’s documentation!

Contents:

• Installation
• Examples
  • Basic example
  • Advanced usage
• Documentation
  • Arguments
  • FatalSignal
  • Frame
  • Parser
  • SFrame
  • Status
  • SuppCount
  • Suppression
  • ValgrindError
  • ValgrindErrorKind
  • ValgrindFormatError
  • ValgrindToolError
  • ValgrindVersionError
  • dumpSuppressions()

Indices and tables

• Index

• Module Index

• Search Page

Overview

By default, Valgrind output is printed to stderr. While readable, Valgrind’s unmodified output is not very easily parsable. However, output can be generated in the form of XML code and redirected to a .xml file by running Valgrind with the following options:

valgrind --leak-check=full --xml=yes --xml-file=<xml-file-name> ./<executable> <args>

These XML files can be accurately parsed by valparse to generate a summary of the Valgrind run.

Example usage

Let’s create a very simple program with valparse:

import valparse

xml_file = valparse.Parser('./test.xml')
if xml_file.hasLeaks() or xml_file.hasErrors():
    print("Leaks or errors found!")

Take a look at the programs on the examples page for more examples of API usage.