python-coverage(1)

Name
python-coverage - measure code coverage of Python program execution

SYNOPSIS
python-coverage command [ option ... ]
python-coverage help [ command ]

DESCRIPTION

python-coverage executes a Python program, measures which of its statements are executed and which are not, and reports these coverage measurements.

COMMAND OVERVIEW

python-coverage annotate
    Annotate source files with execution information.

python-coverage combine
    Combine a number of data files.

python-coverage debug
    Display diagnostic information about the internals of this program.

python-coverage erase
    Erase previously collected coverage data.

python-coverage help
    Get help on using coverage.py.

python-coverage html
    Create an HTML report.

python-coverage report
    Report coverage stats on modules.

python-coverage run
    Run a Python program and measure code execution.

python-coverage xml
    Create an XML report of coverage results.

GLOBAL OPTIONS

--help, -h
    Describe how to use Coverage, in general or a command.

--rcfile RCFILE
    Specify configuration file RCFILE. Defaults to .coveragerc.

--omit PATTERN ...
    Omit files when their filename matches one of these PATTERNs. Usually needs quoting on the command line.

--include PATTERN ...
    Include files only when their filename path matches one of these PATTERNs. Usually needs quoting on the command line.

COMMAND REFERENCE

annotate Options:

-d DIR, --directory DIR
    Write the output files to DIR.

-i, --ignore-errors
    Ignore errors while reading source files.

    combine PATH PATH [ ... ] Combine data from multiple coverage files PATH, collected with run -p. The combined results are written to a single file representing the union of the data.

    debug topic Display information on the internals of coverage.py, for diagnosing problems.

    Topics are:

•   data, to show a summary of the collected data.

•   sys, to show installation information.

    erase Erase previously collected coverage data.

    help [ command ] Describe how to use Coverage.

    html [ option ... ] [ MODULE ... ] Create an HTML report of the coverage of each MODULE file. Each file gets its own page, with the source decorated to show executed, excluded, and missed lines.

    Options:

-d DIR, --directory DIR
    Write the output files to DIR.

--title TITLE
    Use the text string TITLE as the title on the HTML.

--fail-under MIN
    Exit with a status of 2 if the total coverage is less than MIN.

-i, --ignore-errors
    Ignore errors while reading source files.

    report [ option ... ] [ MODULE ... ] Report coverage statistics on each MODULE.

    Options:

--fail-under MIN
    Exit with a status of 2 if the total coverage is less than MIN.

-i, --ignore-errors
    Ignore errors while reading source files.

-m, --show-missing
    Show line numbers of statements in each module that weren't executed.

    run [ options ... ] PROGRAMFILE [ program_options ] Run a Python program PROGRAMFILE, measuring code execution.

    Options:

-a, --append
    Append coverage data to .coverage, otherwise it is started clean with each run.

--branch
    Measure branch coverage in addition to statement coverage.

--debug DEBUGOPT,...
    Debug options DEBUGOPT, separated by commas

-L, --pylib
    Measure coverage even inside the Python installed library, which isn't done by default.

-p, --parallel-mode
    Append the machine name, process id and random number to the .coverage data file name to simplify collecting data from many processes.

--timid
    Use a simpler but slower trace method. Try this if you get seemingly impossible results!

--source SOURCE ...
    A list of packages or directories of code to be measured.

    xml [ options ... ] [ MODULES ... ] Generate an XML report of coverage results on each MODULE.

    Options:

--fail-under MIN
    Exit with a status of 2 if the total coverage is less than MIN.

-i, --ignore-errors
    Ignore errors while reading source files.

-o OUTFILE
    Write the XML report to OUTFILE. Defaults to coverage.xml.

ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES

COVERAGE_FILE Path to the file where coverage measurements are collected to and reported from. Default: .coverage in the current working directory.

COVERAGE_OPTIONS Space-separated series of command-line options to python-coverage. Default: empty.

HISTORY

The python-coverage command is a Python program which calls the coverage Python library to do all the work.

The library was originally developed by Gareth Rees, and is now developed by Ned Batchelder.

This manual page was written to document the python-coverage command for Debian. This is free software: you may copy, modify and/or distribute this work under the terms of the GNU General Public License, version 3 or later <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/> as published by the Free Software Foundation, version 3 or later. No warranty expressed or implied.

On Debian systems, the complete text of the GNU General Public License version 3 can be found in the file /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL-3.

Author
Ben Finney <ben+python@benfinney.id.au>

Copyright
Copyright © 2010–2017 Ben Finney <bignose@debian.org>