preventing python coverage from including virtual environment site packages

Question

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:

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Answer 1

Try using py.test and then specifiying your test options in a setup.cfg file. You will need to pip install pytest first.

For example:

[pytest]
norecursedirs = build docs/_build *.egg .tox *.venv
python_files = tests/functional* tests/integration*
addopts =
    #--verbose
    --tb short
    # Turn on --capture to have brief, less noisy output
    # You will only see output if the test fails
    # Use --capture no if you want to see it all or have problems debugging
    --capture fd
    # --capture no
    # show extra test summary info as specified by chars (f)ailed, (E)error,      (s)skipped, (x)failed, (X)passed.
    - rfEsxX
    --junitxml junit.xml
    --cov workspace --cov-report xml --cov-report term-missing

You can read more about configuring py.test here: https://pytest.org/latest/customize.html