Coverage html report in django python application created htmlcov folder with files, however each file has strange prefix

Question

i am learning how to use coverage package for evaluating which statements in django/python application are covered by unit tests and which are not. I ran command: coverage run --source "APP" manage.py test && coverage report && coverage html , which created htmlcov folder and multiple html-files inside it. Each file corresponds to the .py file, however in the beginning of each file-name , i see a strange prefix, something like this: "d_10d11d93a0707d03_example_py.html" instead of expected "example_py.html". I wasn't able to google any explanations to this. Please help if you know why is this happening and how to avoid this prefix if at all possible. Thanks!

Answer 1

The prefix is there so that same-named files in different directories won't collide. There isn't a way to avoid the prefix. You should open the htmlcov/index.html file, and navigate from there.