Erroneous report of non-executing test statements

[nedbat]

Originally reported by James Bennett (Bitbucket: ubernostrum, GitHub: ubernostrum)

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Running coverage on the current tip of my application django-flashpolicies (see http://bitbucket.org/ubernostrum/django-flashpolicies/src/359248e9e4d4/), I get an odd report; coverage doesn't think that the entire view tests file is executing:

Name                                                                             Stmts   Exec  Cover   Missing
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/Users/jbennett/dev/hg/personal/django-flashpolicies/flashpolicies/tests/views      36     25    69%   28-29, 41-45, 58-59, 72-73

Those lines in the view tests file //are// executing, however, as I can verify by dropping print statements or changing the assertions so that the tests will fail.

The lines reported as missed all have in common that they come immediately after calls to xml.dom.minidom.parseString, but I've no idea why that would cause a problem or whether it's really related.

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• Bitbucket: https://bitbucket.org/ned/coveragepy/issue/10

[nedbat]

OK, that was a big one. Read the comments in <<changeset 507072f95bdf (bb)>> to learn the whole sad story...

[nedbat]

Pyexpat bug filed: http://bugs.python.org/issue6359