Running coverage inside virtualenv

Question

I recently stumbled upon some issue with running coverage measurements within virtual environment. I do not remember similar issues in the past, nor I was able to find solut

Answer 1

I had to leave my virtualenv after installing coverage and reactivate it to get coverage to work.

[alex@gesa ~]$ virtualenv --no-site-packages venv
[alex@gesa ~]$ source venv/bin/activate
(venv)[alex@gesa ~]$ pip install coverage
(venv)[alex@gesa ~]$ deactivate
[alex@gesa ~]$ source venv/bin/activate

Answer 2

pip install coverage in your new venv

[alex@gesa ~]$ virtualenv venv
[alex@gesa ~]$ source venv/bin/activate
(venv)[alex@gesa ~]$ pip install coverage
(venv)[alex@gesa ~]$ echo 'import sys; print(sys.executable)' > test.py
(venv)[alex@gesa ~]$ python test.py
/home/alex/venv/bin/python
(venv)[alex@gesa ~]$ coverage run test.py
/home/alex/venv/bin/python
(venv)[alex@gesa ~]$