Running nosetests with the --cover-min-percentage flag on a skeleton package with only an __init__.py file fails because the coverage output does not include a total line.
$ python setup.py nosetests --with-coverage --cover-min-percentage=80
running nosetests
running egg_info
...
Name Stmts Miss Cover
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my_package.py 0 0 100%
nose.plugins.cover: ERROR: No total percentage was found in coverage output, something went wrong.
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Ran 0 tests in 0.004s
OK
Running nosetests with the
--cover-min-percentage
flag on a skeleton package with only an __init__.py file fails because the coverage output does not include a total line.