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

[Paul Moore]

I agree - removing this just to make the coverage figures look pretty
seems like the wrong motivation.

Configuring coverage to understand that you want to exclude these
lines from the checking would be fine, as would accepting that a
coverage of slightly less than 100% is OK. Removing functionality that
people use (whether or not they have other ways of getting the same
results) needs a stronger justification, IMO.

Paul

On Wed, 1 May 2019 at 11:51, Antoine Pitrou <solipsis at pitrou.net> wrote:
>
> On Tue, 30 Apr 2019 22:24:53 +0100
> Chris Withers <chris at withers.org> wrote:
> > Hi All,
> >
> > I have a crazy idea of getting unittest.mock up to 100% code coverage.
> >
> > I noticed at the bottom of all of the test files in testmock/, there's a:
> >
> > if __name__ == '__main__':
> >      unittest.main()
> >
> > ...block.
> >
> > How would people feel about these going away? I don't *think* they're
> > needed now that we have unittest discover, but thought I'd ask.
>
> If you are only asking to remove them because you want that score of
> 100% coverage, then I think you shouldn't.
>
> Regards
>
> Antoine.
>
>
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