[Python-Dev] "if __name__ == '__main__'" at the bottom of python unittest files

[Chris Withers]

On 01/05/2019 06:12, Terry Reedy wrote:
> Such blocks should be excluded from coverage by the default .coveragerc 
> file.  Mine came with
> 
> exclude_lines =
>      # Don't complain if non-runnable code isn't run:
>      if 0:
>      if __name__ == .__main__.:
>      if DEBUG:

Which .coveragerc are you referring to? There isn't one in the cpython 
repo and a current release of coverage.py doesn't appear to exclude 
these lines for me:

https://circleci.com/gh/testing-cabal/mock/20

(line 44 in mock/tests/testsentinel.py)

Chris