# Demonstrate some issues with coverage.py branch testing. def my_function(x): """This isn't real code, just snippets...""" # An infinite loop is structurally still a branch: it can next execute the # first line of the loop, or the first line after the loop. But # "while True" will never jump to the line after the loop, so the line # is shown as a partial branch: i = 0 while True: print "In while True" if i > 0: break i += 1 print "Left the True loop" # Notice that "while 1" also has this problem. Even though the compiler # knows there's no computation at the top of the loop, it's still expressed # in byte code as a branch with two possibilities. i = 0 while 1: print "In while 1" if i > 0: break i += 1 print "Left the 1 loop" # Coverage.py lets developers exclude lines that they know will not be # executed. So far, the branch coverage doesn't use all that information # when deciding which lines are partially executed. # # Here, even though the else line is explicitly marked as never executed, # the if line complains that it never branched to the else: if x < 1000: # This branch is always taken print "x is reasonable" else: # pragma: nocover print "this never happens" # try-except structures are complex branches. An except clause with a # type is a three-way branch: there could be no exception, there could be # a matching exception, and there could be a non-matching exception. # # Here we run the code twice: once with no exception, and once with a # matching exception. The "except" line is marked as partial because we # never executed its third case: a non-matching exception. for y in (1, 2): try: if y % 2: raise ValueError("y is odd!") except ValueError: print "y must have been odd" print "done with y" print "done with 1, 2" # Another except clause, but this time all three cases are executed. No # partial lines are shown: for y in (0, 1, 2): try: if y % 2: raise ValueError("y is odd!") if y == 0: raise Exception("zero!") except ValueError: print "y must have been odd" except: print "y is something else" print "done with y" print "done with 0, 1, 2" my_function(1)