[TIP] Fwd: Coverage for threads

[Ned Batchelder]

You shouldn't create a new Coverage object for each thread. Create one 
in your main, and it will handle the threads for you.

Or, just run your program with coverage instead of using the API.

--Ned.

On 5/7/19 5:07 PM, Kyle Lahnakoski wrote:
>
>
> I am using the low level threading library:
>
>      from thread import allocate_lock, get_ident, start_new_thread
>
> When I create a new thread, do I run
>
>      cov = coverage.Coverage()
>      cov.start()
>
> at the start of each thread, as per
> https://coverage.readthedocs.io/en/latest/api.html ?
>
> Which is much like I already do for profiling:
>
>      cprofiler = CProfiler()
>      cprofiler.__enter__()
>
> Thank you
>
>
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