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authorNed Batchelder <ned@nedbatchelder.com>2011-02-06 23:02:12 -0500
committerNed Batchelder <ned@nedbatchelder.com>2011-02-06 23:02:12 -0500
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Add tests and doc for Brandon's -m flag.
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Your program runs just as if it had been invoked with the Python command line.
Arguments after your file name are passed to your program as usual in
-``sys.argv``.
+``sys.argv``. Rather than providing a filename, you can use the ``-m`` switch
+and specify an importable module name instead, just as you can with the
+Python ``-m`` switch.
If you want :ref:`branch coverage <branch>` measurement, use the ``--branch``
flag. Otherwise only statement coverage is measured.