From 7ce7f10494bd7271ad5c17100021301a6ff4128e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: =?UTF-8?q?Anders=20Hovm=C3=B6ller?= <anders.hovmoller@trioptima.com>
Date: Mon, 16 Sep 2019 15:32:08 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Avoid importing coverage for test runs that don't need it

---
 src/pytest_cov/plugin.py | 15 +++++++++++++--
 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/pytest_cov/plugin.py b/src/pytest_cov/plugin.py
index 1127e4c7..c0f28a05 100644
--- a/src/pytest_cov/plugin.py
+++ b/src/pytest_cov/plugin.py
@@ -5,11 +5,9 @@
 
 import coverage
 import pytest
-from coverage.misc import CoverageException
 
 from . import compat
 from . import embed
-from . import engine
 
 PYTEST_VERSION = tuple(map(int, pytest.__version__.split('.')[:3]))
 
@@ -160,6 +158,10 @@ def __init__(self, options, pluginmanager, start=True):
             self.options.cov_report = {}
         self.options.cov_source = _prepare_cov_source(self.options.cov_source)
 
+        # import engine lazily here to avoid importing
+        # it for unit tests that don't need it
+        from . import engine
+
         if is_dist and start:
             self.start(engine.DistMaster)
         elif start:
@@ -202,6 +204,10 @@ def pytest_sessionstart(self, session):
             self._disabled = True
             return
 
+        # import engine lazily here to avoid importing
+        # it for unit tests that don't need it
+        from . import engine
+
         self.pid = os.getpid()
         if self._is_worker(session):
             nodeid = (
@@ -256,6 +262,11 @@ def pytest_runtestloop(self, session):
             self.cov_controller.finish()
 
         if not self._is_worker(session) and self._should_report():
+
+            # import coverage lazily here to avoid importing
+            # it for unit tests that don't need it
+            from coverage.misc import CoverageException
+
             try:
                 self.cov_total = self.cov_controller.summary(self.cov_report)
             except CoverageException as exc: