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Formatting and Drawing
Formatting
You can convert your compiled circuit into its textual representation by converting it to string:
str(circuit)
If you just want to see the output on your terminal, you can directly print it as well:
print(circuit)
{% hint style="warning" %} Formatting is just for debugging purposes. It's not possible to create the circuit back from its textual representation. See How to Deploy if that's your goal. {% endhint %}
Drawing
{% hint style="danger" %} Drawing functionality requires the installation of the package with the full feature set. See the Installation section to learn how to do that. {% endhint %}
You can use the draw method of your compiled circuit to draw it:
drawing = circuit.draw()
This method will draw the circuit on a temporary PNG file and return the path to this file.
You can show the drawing in a Jupyter notebook, like this:
from PIL import Image
drawing = Image.open(circuit.draw())
drawing.show()
drawing.close()
Or, you can use the show option of the draw method to show the drawing with matplotlib.
circuit.draw(show=True)
{% hint style="danger" %} Beware that this will clear the matplotlib plots you have. {% endhint %}
Lastly, you can save the drawing to a specific path:
destination = "/tmp/path/of/your/choice.png"
drawing = circuit.draw(save_to=destination)
assert drawing == destination