Restrict nosetests coverage to only the tests that were run

Question

Is there a way to have nosetests restrict the coverage information to only the tests that were run?

I know about the cover-package flag, but it would be nicer if you didn't have to specify the package.

This would be especially useful when running aa single unit test class that lives in a file with multiple unit test classes.

Answer 1

Unfortunately I do not know of a way in nosetests to perform this action. I actually ended up uninstalling nosetests and using just coverage.py because it seems like nosetests and coverage don't play nicely together. I know for a fact you can specify down to individual test methods what you want to run. I'm not sure if that's exactly what you are looking for but I beat my head against a brick wall for days trying to get nosetests to cooperate with no luck. Maybe it would save some effort to switch and run coverage.py directly instead?