coverage module

.. module:: coverage

The most important thing in the coverage module is the :class:`coverage.Coverage` class, described in :ref:`api_coverage`, but there are a few other things also.

.. data:: version_info

A tuple of five elements, similar to :data:`sys.version_info <python:sys.version_info>`: major, minor, micro, releaselevel, and serial. All values except releaselevel are integers; the release level is 'alpha', 'beta', 'candidate', or 'final'. Unlike :data:`sys.version_info <python:sys.version_info>`, the elements are not available by name.

.. data:: __version__

A string with the version of coverage.py, for example, "5.0b2".

.. autoclass:: CoverageException

Starting coverage.py automatically

This function is used to start coverage measurement automatically when Python starts. See :ref:`subprocess` for details.

.. autofunction:: process_startup