Python Coverage: testing a program (was: Maintaining a backported module)

[Ben Finney]

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.

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Ben Finney