Current approach to restarting data collection?

[ShaheedHaque]

Current approach to restarting data collection?

[ShaheedHaque]

I was able to close #1454 by implementing on-going dumping and restarting data collection. My current approach, in lieu of using the internal APIs used by the stackoverflow thread, is something like this:

    ctx.coverage.stop()
    ctx.coverage.save()
    data_file = <some PID-based name with a monotonically increasing count as a suffix>
    ctx.coverage = _coverage.Coverage(data_file=data_file, data_suffix='cov', cover_pylib=False, config_file=whatever)
    ctx.coverage.start()

This assumes that the garbage collector will clean up after the old instance of ctx.coverage, and has the potential to create a lot of files. Hence the interest in whether auto_load or load() (or indeed some other API) could be useful. Ideally, something like:

    ctx.coverage.stop()
    ctx.coverage.save()
    ctx.coverage.resume()