How to use nose coverage with --timid flag

Question

I'd like to run "nosetests --with-coverage" using Ned Batchelder's coverage module, but passing the coverage module the --timid flag. Is there a way (e.g. setting an environment variable) to make coverage run with --timid?

Answer 1

You've got two options:

1. Use a .coveragerc file to provide options to coverage.py

2. Instead of running coverage inside nose, run nose inside coverage:

   coverage run c:\python25\scripts\nosetests-script.py 
   

(sorry for the Windows syntax if you aren't on Windows)