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Diffstat (limited to 'coverage/control.py')
| -rw-r--r-- | coverage/control.py | 10 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/coverage/control.py b/coverage/control.py index fde6f63b..050b6fbd 100644 --- a/coverage/control.py +++ b/coverage/control.py @@ -201,9 +201,15 @@ class Coverage(object): if self._inited: return - # Create and configure the debugging controller. + # Create and configure the debugging controller. COVERAGE_DEBUG_FILE + # is an environment variable, the name of a file to append debug logs + # to. if self._debug_file is None: - self._debug_file = sys.stderr + debug_file_name = os.environ.get("COVERAGE_DEBUG_FILE") + if debug_file_name: + self._debug_file = open(debug_file_name, "a") + else: + self._debug_file = sys.stderr self.debug = DebugControl(self.config.debug, self._debug_file) # Load plugins |