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| author | Ned Batchelder <ned@nedbatchelder.com> | 2018-09-21 17:58:37 -0400 |
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| committer | Ned Batchelder <ned@nedbatchelder.com> | 2018-09-21 17:58:37 -0400 |
| commit | 6c14ffb41a1d1b053f8df52dc37c35f730a8666c (patch) | |
| tree | 197162edba02d017b3816c6b88ce1cc8fc6e9e19 /doc/cmd.rst | |
| parent | 85f63fef4d3b8e1b1328e3268c3eee3900e1d8a4 (diff) | |
| parent | b0f5ac245fbd8afc6b9d2ac84f732c419a712f0a (diff) | |
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diff --git a/doc/cmd.rst b/doc/cmd.rst index 00a9a6c3..86a858e4 100644 --- a/doc/cmd.rst +++ b/doc/cmd.rst @@ -69,7 +69,7 @@ control, and can provide options that other invocation techniques (like test runner plugins) may not offer. See :ref:`config` for more details. -.. _cmd_execution: +.. _cmd_run: Execution --------- @@ -122,6 +122,10 @@ If you are measuring coverage in a multi-process program, or across a number of machines, you'll want the ``--parallel-mode`` switch to keep the data separate during measurement. See :ref:`cmd_combining` below. +You can specify a :ref:`static context <contexts>` for a coverage run with +``--context``. This can be any label you want, and will be recorded with the +data. See :ref:`contexts` for more information. + By default, coverage.py does not measure code installed with the Python interpreter, for example, the standard library. If you want to measure that code as well as your own, add the ``-L`` (or ``--pylib``) flag. |