Python Coverage: testing a program
Ethan Furman
ethan at stoneleaf.us
Thu Oct 24 18:28:14 EDT 2013
On 10/24/2013 01:54 PM, Ben Finney wrote:
> Terry Reedy <tjreedy at udel.edu> writes:
>
>> On 10/24/2013 1:46 PM, Ned Batchelder wrote:
>>> It's been fun dropping the contortions for coverage.py 4.x, though!
>>
>> One request: ignore "if __name__ == '__main__':" clauses at the end of
>> files, which cannot be run under coverage.py, so 100% coverage is
>> reported as 100% instead of 9x%.
>
> You can do this already with current Coverage: tell Coverage to exclude
> <URL:http://nedbatchelder.com/code/coverage/excluding.html> specific
> statements, and it won't count them for coverage calculations.
While that's neat (being able to exclude items) is there any reason to
ever count the `if __name__ == '__main__'` clause? Are there any
circumstances where it could run under Coverage? (Apologies if this is
a dumb question, I know nothing about Coverage myself -- but I'm going
to go look it up now. ;)
--
~Ethan~
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