coverage.py: exclude files

Question

How do I exclude entire files from coverage.py reports?

According to the documentation you can exclude code by matching lines. I want to exclude entire files, so that th

Answer 1

You can omit modules with the --omit flag. It takes a comma-separated list of path prefixes. So for example:

coverage run my_program.py
coverage report --omit=path/to/3rdparty