Report no-cover lines

[jml]

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe. We use pragma: no cover to mark sections of code that are impractically difficult to test. This way, we can use "100% coverage" to mean "we have made a conscious decision to not test some code" or "there is nothing untested by accident".

That said, all that deliberately, consciously untested code is still a risk. It would be nice to know how much of a risk we're carrying by having some way to identify excluded code.

Describe the solution you'd like The coverage report should also include the number of lines excluded.

Describe alternatives you've considered Grepping for no cover gets us a part of the way, and is a reasonable way of auditing. It's hard to guess how much damage any individual no cover might cause.

Additional context

251 is very similar, but is about reporting on excluded lines that ended up being covered.

[nedbat]

This is an interesting idea. I guess you are talking about the text report (coverage report)? We could add a column to count the excluded lines. Have you looked at the HTML report? It already has a column for Excluded, and the individual file pages can show the excluded lines (highlighted in gray).

[jml]

Thanks! Yes, I am talking about the text report. I think what I'd really like is both a column as you describe and a --show-excluded option that shows line numbers of statements in each module that were excluded.

I didn't know that about the HTML report—that's neat! I don't look at it very much since our build automation runs the text report. I'll definitely use it next time I'm on a coverage-improving rampage.