Commit eadc9bd0 authored by Stefan Behnel's avatar Stefan Behnel

Add a comment about the way the Coverage plugin finds out what to report to coverage.py.

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A Cython plugin for coverage.py A Cython plugin for coverage.py
Requires the coverage package at least in version 4.0 (which added the plugin API). Requires the coverage package at least in version 4.0 (which added the plugin API).
This plugin requires the generated C sources to be available, next to the extension module.
It parses the C file and reads the original source files from it, which are stored in C comments.
It then reports a source file to coverage.py when it hits one of its lines during line tracing.
""" """
from __future__ import absolute_import from __future__ import absolute_import
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