Michael Selik <michael.se...@gmail.com> added the comment: The problem appears to be a mistake in commit f026dae130bf6f9015c4b212f16852ba4a3f3dec
https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/f026dae130bf6f9015c4b212f16852ba4a3f3dec This made the writing of cover files conditional on ``show_missing`` which is the option to mark lines which weren't executed with several angle brackets ">>>>>". https://github.com/python/cpython/blob/3.5/Lib/trace.py#L326 mike on mac in ~/ $ python -m trace --count foo.py hello mike on mac in ~/ $ ls *.cover ls: *.cover: No such file or directory mike on mac in ~/ $ python -m trace --count -m foo.py hello mike on mac in ~/ $ ls *.cover -rw-r--r-- 1 mike staff 22B Oct 31 15:40 foo.cover ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <https://bugs.python.org/issue31908> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com