nosetests - excluding a dir from the coverage report

Question

I have my python app structured as follows:

proj
   - comp1
   - comp2
tests
   - comp1
   - comp2
other
   - contains some python code

I am running nosetests as following:

nosetests --with-coverage  --cover-package=proj --exclude-dir=other -v tests

However, in the coverage report that nosetests prints at the end I still entries from 'other'. How do I exclude 'other' from the coverage report?

Answer 1

Quite possible your tests or proj are referring to the other python code, and as result, it makes it into report. You could see debug coverage plugin printout with:

nosetests --with-coverage  --cover-package=proj -vv tests -l nose.plugins.cover