code coverage tool

[Dave Brueck]

On Sun, 2 Mar 2003, John Roth wrote:

> "Delaney, Timothy C (Timothy)" <tdelaney at avaya.com> wrote in message
> news:mailman.1046651044.18286.python-list at python.org...
> > From: Dave Brueck [mailto:dave at pythonapocrypha.com]
> >
> > On Fri, 28 Feb 2003, Delaney, Timothy C (Timothy) wrote:
> >
> > > > >phil hunt wrote:
> > > > >>
> > > > >> Is there an open-source code coverage tool for Python? I have a
> > > > >> program for which I have written sevewral unit tests,
> > and I want to
> > > > >> see if any of the lines in my program aren't being
> > exercised by the
> > > > >> tests.
> > >
> > > I'm still waiting for permission to release my coverage tool :(
> > >
> > > It's still incomplete, but it's faster than the other
> > options I've tried
> > > and collects more information.
> >
> > Does it work with multithreaded programs? Hope you get
> > permission soon! :)
>
> Nah - unfortunately, that's one of the major parts that's incomplete
> about it :( A python coverage tool which automatically attaches to
> multiple threads is a non-trivial task.
>
> Of course, if I *do* get to release it (I'm waiting on a VP to sign
> something off ...) then I could leave it to *someone else* to add the
> multi-threading part ;)
>
> Tim Delaney
>
> The first few messages seem not to have made it to my news server.
> Look on the Vaults for PyCover. It mostly does what you
> want, and if it doesn't, it's easy enough to change.

No automatic support for multithreaded programs though, right?