Python module not found with sudo in github action

Question

I wanted to use coveragepy combine to seperate .coverage files into one.

For that I installed python and the coverage module via pip, afterwards then running this command. python -m coverage combine .coverage-*. That should work and does, but aparrently requires either root or for the user to own the directory. So I decided to use sudo within the github action, since I read that it's passwordless.

But when running the installed module with sudo in front of the command it says /usr/bin/python: No module named coverage.

This is the part of my workflow responsible for the actions explained above:

      - name: Set up Python
        uses: actions/setup-python@v3
        with:
          python-version: "3.10"

      - name: Install coverage
        run: |
          python -m pip install --upgrade pip
          pip install coverage

      - name: Listing all items in data directory (Testing)
        run: ls -Al ./docker/data/coverage

      - name: Merge coverage reports
        working-directory: ./docker/data/coverage
        run: sudo python -m coverage combine .coverage-*

running the sudo python -m coverage combine .coverage-* on my local machine works just fine.

Is there any way I can get python to recognise that, that module exists and is installed or is there maybe any other workaround I could use?

Answer 1

I suspect pip is installing coverage to the user directory. If you must run the command with sudo, try running the pip install with sudo as well.