preventing python coverage from including virtual environment site packages
I am new to coverage and ran into a strange problem. My coverage is taking my virtual environment site packages into account. Here is the output of the coverage run:
coverage run test.py
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Ran 20 tests in 0.060s
OK
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$ coverage report
Name Stmts Miss Cover
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/home/ubuntu/Envs/atcatalog/lib/python2.7/site-packages/flask/__init__ 18 0 100%
/home/ubuntu/Envs/atcatalog/lib/python2.7/site-packages/flask/_compat 38 20 47%
/home/ubuntu/Envs/atcatalog/lib/python2.7/site-packages/flask/app 528 255 52%
/home/ubuntu/Envs/atcatalog/lib/python2.7/site-packages/flask/blueprints 156 118 24%
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/home/ubuntu/Envs/atcatalog/lib/python2.7/site-packages/werkzeug/urls 412 215 48%
/home/ubuntu/Envs/atcatalog/lib/python2.7/site-packages/werkzeug/utils 242 175 28%
/home/ubuntu/Envs/atcatalog/lib/python2.7/site-packages/werkzeug/wrappers 568 298 48%
/home/ubuntu/Envs/atcatalog/lib/python2.7/site-packages/werkzeug/wsgi 448 352 21%
atcatalog/__init__ 7 0 100%
atcatalog/views/__init__ 0 0 100%
atcatalog/views/publang 7 0 100%
atcatalog/views/pubtext 1 0 100%
atcatalog/views/userlang 13 0 100%
atcatalog/views/users 5 0 100%
atcatalog/views/usertext 14 0 100%
test 120 0 100%
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TOTAL 12530 8044 36%
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Here is the structure of my project directory which resides under home:
workspace/
├── README.md
├── atcatalog
│ ├── __init__.py
│ ├── __init__.pyc
│ ├── static
│ ├── templates
│ └── views
│ ├── __init__.py
│ ├── __init__.pyc
│ ├── publang.py
│ ├── publang.pyc
│ ├── pubtext.py
│ ├── pubtext.pyc
│ ├── userlang.py
│ ├── userlang.pyc
│ ├── users.py
│ ├── users.pyc
│ ├── usertext.py
│ └── usertext.pyc
├── requirements.txt
├── run.py
└── test.py
I had the virtual environment at first inside the project directory and now moved it out to ~/Envs with virtualenvwrapper, but the problem persisted. run.py and test.py are not special in any way, they both import app from atcatalog. I also tried to find ways to omit the virtual environment directory, but google gave no answer (surprisingly). I don't think it is the purpose of coverage to test already well tested site-packages. So I would exclude them from the run.
How can I accomplish to avoid coverage having testing my site-packages?
Answer
Thanks to tknickman I figured it out: Use either
coverage run --source <path to project dir> test.py
or create a configuration file .coveragerc which resides in the directory you run coverage from, with the following content:
[run]
source =
<path to project dir>
This provides you do not have your virtual environment installed under the project directory. If you have the virtual environment installed under the project dir you can use
coverage run --source <project path> --omit <pattern> test.py
Note that omit wants a file pattern like
~/projectdir/venv/*
instead of a path.
The corresponding .coveragerc would look like this:
[run]
source=
<path to project dir>
omit=
<path to project dir>/<name of virtual env>/*
I still think that like packages of the standard library any packages installed under site-packages should not be covered by default.