Coverage with nosetests not exiting

Question

I have an instance of Atlassian Bamboo running that calls and creates a code coverage website using the coverage.py script.

it calls:

coverage run $(which nosetests)  --with-xunit $test_files
coverage html -D directory

Today, a user introduced a failing test and coverage never exited.

When the service account runs this, it finishes and exits

 nosetests --with-xunit $test_files

Am I doing something wrong in how I run nosetests with coverage?

Answer 1

Ned from Coverage advised me to switch to

coverage run -m nose ...