Excluding abstractproperties from coverage reports

For me the best solution was what @Wesley mentioned in his comment to the accepted answer, specifically replacing 'pass' with a docstring for the abstract property, e.g.:

class MyAbstractClass(object):    __metaclass__ = ABCMeta    @abstractproperty    def myproperty(self):       """ this property is too abstract to understand. """

There's no way to exclude the abstract properties precisely as you have it, but if you make a slight change, you can. Have your abstract property raise an error:

@abstractpropertydef myproperty(self):     raise NotImplementedError

Then you can instruct coverage.py to ignore lines that raise NotImplementedError. Create a .coveragerc file, and in it put:

[report]exclude_lines =    # Have to re-enable the standard pragma    pragma: no cover    # Don't complain if tests don't hit defensive assertion code:    raise NotImplementedError

For more ideas about the kinds of lines you might want to always ignore, see: http://nedbatchelder.com/code/coverage/config.html

I have custom skip logic in my .coveragerc:

[report]exclude_lines =    pragma: no cover    @abstract

This way all abstractmethods and abstractproperties are marked as skipped.