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| author | Ned Batchelder <ned@nedbatchelder.com> | 2021-10-11 15:22:18 -0400 |
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| committer | Ned Batchelder <ned@nedbatchelder.com> | 2021-10-11 16:15:40 -0400 |
| commit | 260359756694728cd13f8c8715dddf7c6e2f371d (patch) | |
| tree | 4ed1f110286dd34c53b9d1169d1d94c83bc89ac3 /doc | |
| parent | fdaa8224ccfa16233fda0c84860ef95ca073ee95 (diff) | |
| download | python-coveragepy-git-260359756694728cd13f8c8715dddf7c6e2f371d.tar.gz | |
fix: source modules need to be re-imported. #1232
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diff --git a/doc/source.rst b/doc/source.rst index 8debd575..bab57a72 100644 --- a/doc/source.rst +++ b/doc/source.rst @@ -39,6 +39,11 @@ in their names will be skipped (they are assumed to be scratch files written by text editors). Files that do not end with ``.py``, ``.pyw``, ``.pyo``, or ``.pyc`` will also be skipped. +.. note:: Modules named as sources may be imported twice, once by coverage.py + to find their location, then again by your own code or test suite. Usually + this isn't a problem, but could cause trouble if a module has side-effects + at import time. + You can further fine-tune coverage.py's attention with the ``--include`` and ``--omit`` switches (or ``[run] include`` and ``[run] omit`` configuration values). ``--include`` is a list of file name patterns. If specified, only |