What is a partial hit in code coverage?

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Recently, when switching from Coveralls to Codecov coverage in my project dropped by a few percent. This seems to be due to partial hits, which are counted as hits in Coveralls but as misses in Codecov.

Here is a code example:

class Struct(object):                  # hit
    def __init__(self, content=None):  # hit            
        if content is not None:        # partial hit
            self.content = content     # missed

s = Struct()                           # hit

As far I see, the if statement is fully evaluated by the interpreter. Why is it not counted as a hit, then?

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