cython functions coverage using coverage.py

For all the coders out there, if you have not been writing unit tests for your code then god bless you, but if you do write tests here's another tool you must use: code coverage.
In python, on of the most popular code coverage tools is Ned Batchelder's coverage.py. It reports statement coverage of all your tests and also can report coverage in beautiful html pages.Its a very nice tool and also integrates well with testing frameworks such as nose to automate your testing and coverage reporting tasks.

But, for all those who use cython, you must surely be aware of the difficulties it brings along while testing, you can never be sure if "all is well". coverage.py doesn't report coverage of cython modules, as those are compiled into native functions.
To mitigate this problem to some extent, i wrote a simple patch to enable coverage.py to report function coverage (not statement coverage) of cython pyx files too, hurray. So now after applying the patch to coverage, all you need to do is:

1. compile cython code with profiling enabled (cython --directive profile=True)
2. run your tests under coverage as you would normally do taking care to add the timid option (coverage --timid test.py)
3. ???
4. profit

So now that you can profit, i'd be greatly thankful if someone comes up and writes this patch into the tracer.c file in the coverage source (it's very simple, get the source using $ hg clone http://bitbucket.org/ned/coveragepy)