Ned Batchelder

*Original comment by* **Ionel Cristian Mărieș (Bitbucket: [ionelmc](https://bitbucket.org/ionelmc), GitHub: [ionelmc](https://github.com/ionelmc))** ---------------------------------------- I don't see how it's relevant. pytest-cov doesn't read the file, it will only pass the absolute path (if...

The sections are named differently ("[run]" vs "[coverage:run]"). If you specify setup.cfg as the file, coverage.py will try to read the "[run]" section and won't find it. It only looks...

*Original comment by* **Ionel Cristian Mărieș (Bitbucket: [ionelmc](https://bitbucket.org/ionelmc), GitHub: [ionelmc](https://github.com/ionelmc))** ---------------------------------------- What do you mean, "discovered implicitly"?

@ionelmc it isn't enough to tell coverage.py to use setup.cfg. It won't be read properly unless it is discovered implicitly.

*Original comment by* **Ionel Cristian Mărieș (Bitbucket: [ionelmc](https://bitbucket.org/ionelmc), GitHub: [ionelmc](https://github.com/ionelmc))** ---------------------------------------- pytest-cov could have an improvement to use setup.cfg if .coveragerc don't exist (same as coverage, but with pytest-cov's correct...

*Original comment by* **Samuel Colvin (Bitbucket: [samuelcolvin](https://bitbucket.org/samuelcolvin), GitHub: [samuelcolvin](https://github.com/samuelcolvin))** ---------------------------------------- Ned, thanks so much for the help. I've switched to using `.coveragerc` and that seems to have fixed it. Perhaps...

I've come to some different conclusions that Ionel did, though he was very helpful in getting me going with debugging with his aspectlib. The problem here is the Process spawned...

*Original comment by* **Ionel Cristian Mărieș (Bitbucket: [ionelmc](https://bitbucket.org/ionelmc), GitHub: [ionelmc](https://github.com/ionelmc))** ---------------------------------------- I've taken a look at this as well, my opinion is that a combination of configuration, subprocess use and...

*Original comment by* **Samuel Colvin (Bitbucket: [samuelcolvin](https://bitbucket.org/samuelcolvin), GitHub: [samuelcolvin](https://github.com/samuelcolvin))** ---------------------------------------- Sorry about that, on ubuntu redis runs as a service so is always there. I've dusted off my mac and...

@samuelcolvin I'm willing to try reproducing this, but I need explicit instructions, or I'll wander in the redis-wilderness for a while. What should I do on my Mac to get...