"""Monkey-patching to make coverage work right in some cases.""" import multiprocessing import multiprocessing.process import sys # An attribute that will be set on modules to indicate that they have been # monkey-patched. MARKER = "_coverage$patched" def patch_multiprocessing(): """Monkey-patch the multiprocessing module. This enables coverage measurement of processes started by multiprocessing. This is wildly experimental! """ if hasattr(multiprocessing, MARKER): return if sys.version_info >= (3, 4): klass = multiprocessing.process.BaseProcess else: klass = multiprocessing.Process original_bootstrap = klass._bootstrap class ProcessWithCoverage(klass): """A replacement for multiprocess.Process that starts coverage.""" def _bootstrap(self): from coverage import Coverage cov = Coverage(data_suffix=True) cov.start() try: return original_bootstrap(self) finally: cov.stop() cov.save() if sys.version_info >= (3, 4): klass._bootstrap = ProcessWithCoverage._bootstrap else: multiprocessing.Process = ProcessWithCoverage setattr(multiprocessing, MARKER, 1)