An example Makefile for a python project

Makefile

PACKAGE=mypackage
MIN_COVERAGE=90
# NOTE: Be careful, rm -rf will be called on this!
COVERAGE_HTML_DIR=coverage/
VERBOSITY=2

.PHONY: all dev install test coverage clean


all: test

dev:
	pip install -r requirements.txt
	python setup.py develop

install:
	python setup.py install

test:
	nosetests --verbosity=$(VERBOSITY)

coverage:
	nosetests --verbosity=$(VERBOSITY) \
			  --with-coverage \
			  --cover-erase \
			  --cover-package=$(PACKAGE) \
			  --cover-html \
			  --cover-html-dir=$(COVERAGE_HTML_DIR) \
			  --cover-min-percentage=$(MIN_COVERAGE)
	@echo
	@echo "Coverage report: file://`pwd`/$(COVERAGE_HTML_DIR)index.html"

clean:
	find . -type f -name '*.pyc' -delete
	find . -type f -name '*.pyo' -delete
	find . -type f -name '*~' -delete
	find . -type f -name '.coverage' -delete
	rm -rf $(COVERAGE_HTML_DIR)