Get rid of absolute paths from coverage.xml report generated by coverage.py

Question

Is there a way to get relative paths to resulted coverage.xml (or strip off prefix) using coverage.py?

Answer 1

Since coverage v5.0.4 you can set the relative_files option to True, e.g. in your .coveragerc:

[run]
relative_files=True

See this documentation section for reference and this Github issue for context.