[TIP] Coverage of application which doesn't end by itself

[Li, Xiaoyan]

Hi,


I would like to use coverage to check code coverage of applications which is not like unit tests which terminate after running.

For example, I use "coverage run test.py" to check code coverage of following file. 

test.py
while i<4:
    time.sleep(1)
    print "again"
    i=i+2

As above process will not end by itself, I run "kill <process_id> to end it.

But the problem is that coverage can't generate data file. 

Anyone kindly gives me any suggestions how to check code coverage like above test.py? 

Best wishes
Lisa