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Python

Posted by Mark Chesney
Mark Chesney
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Excluding code from coverage.py "to skip certain lines"

Was anyone curious how to skip certain lines of code from coverage.py, as Kenneth mentions at 1min 30sec. If so, I was curious, I looked into it, and I thought I'd share an example:

Coverage.py will look for **comments* marking clauses for exclusion. In this code, the “if debug” clause is excluded from reporting:*

a = my_function1()
if debug:   # pragma: no cover
    msg = "blah blah"
    log_message(msg, a)
b = my_function2()

One more example from same site:

def only_one_choice(x):
    if x:
        blah1()
        blah2()
    else:       # pragma: no cover
        # x is always true.
        blah3()

I'm particularly interested in this practical topic as I'm viewing job descriptions that ask for Experience testing at API/services level Hope that might help someone!