Re: Python Coverage: testing a program

From	Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk>
Subject	Re: Python Coverage: testing a program
Date	2013-10-24 22:55 +0100
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On 24/10/2013 21:54, Ben Finney wrote:
> Terry Reedy <tjreedy@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.
>

An alternative to Ned's great bit of kit is figleaf.  This, Ned's and 
many other useful tools are listed here 
https://wiki.python.org/moin/PythonTestingToolsTaxonomy

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Mark Lawrence

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Maintaining a backported module Steven D'Aprano <steve@pearwood.info> - 2013-10-24 04:54 +0000
  Re: Maintaining a backported module Ben Finney <ben+python@benfinney.id.au> - 2013-10-24 16:09 +1100
    Re: Maintaining a backported module Metallicow <metaliobovinus@gmail.com> - 2013-10-23 22:46 -0700
      Re: Maintaining a backported module Metallicow <metaliobovinus@gmail.com> - 2013-10-30 03:32 -0700
  Re: Maintaining a backported module Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2013-10-23 22:38 -0700
  Re: Maintaining a backported module Ethan Furman <ethan@stoneleaf.us> - 2013-10-23 23:30 -0700
  Re: Maintaining a backported module Ben Finney <ben+python@benfinney.id.au> - 2013-10-24 17:59 +1100
    Re: Maintaining a backported module Steven D'Aprano <steve@pearwood.info> - 2013-10-24 09:38 +0000
      Re: Maintaining a backported module Ben Finney <ben+python@benfinney.id.au> - 2013-10-24 21:01 +1100
  Re: Maintaining a backported module Antoon Pardon <antoon.pardon@rece.vub.ac.be> - 2013-10-24 09:00 +0200
  Re: Maintaining a backported module Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> - 2013-10-24 09:37 +0100
  Re: Maintaining a backported module Ned Batchelder <ned@nedbatchelder.com> - 2013-10-24 06:36 -0400
    Re: Maintaining a backported module Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2013-10-24 11:46 +0000
      Re: Maintaining a backported module rusi <rustompmody@gmail.com> - 2013-10-24 05:25 -0700
      Re: Maintaining a backported module Ned Batchelder <ned@nedbatchelder.com> - 2013-10-24 13:46 -0400
      Re: Maintaining a backported module Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> - 2013-10-24 16:37 -0400
      Python Coverage: testing a program (was: Maintaining a backported module) Ben Finney <ben+python@benfinney.id.au> - 2013-10-25 07:54 +1100
      Re: Python Coverage: testing a program Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> - 2013-10-24 22:55 +0100
      Re: Python Coverage: testing a program Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> - 2013-10-24 18:36 -0400
      Re: Python Coverage: testing a program Ethan Furman <ethan@stoneleaf.us> - 2013-10-24 15:28 -0700
      Re: Python Coverage: testing a program Ben Finney <ben+python@benfinney.id.au> - 2013-10-25 10:27 +1100
      Re: Python Coverage: testing a program Ben Finney <ben+python@benfinney.id.au> - 2013-10-25 10:30 +1100
      Re: Python Coverage: testing a program Ned Batchelder <ned@nedbatchelder.com> - 2013-10-24 19:53 -0400
      Re: Python Coverage: testing a program Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> - 2013-10-24 19:55 -0400
      Re: Maintaining a backported module Oscar Benjamin <oscar.j.benjamin@gmail.com> - 2013-10-25 08:49 +0100
  Re: Maintaining a backported module Christian Heimes <christian@python.org> - 2013-10-24 12:47 +0200
  Re: Maintaining a backported module Ethan Furman <ethan@stoneleaf.us> - 2013-10-24 12:42 -0700

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