following http://docs.python.org/devguide/coverage.html doc you'll end
up with several "new" files/dirs in your checkout:

- .coverage, used by coveragepy to save its info
- coverage/ , the symlink to coveragepy/coverage
- htmlcov/ , the dir where the coverage HTML pages are written

I think they should be added to .hgignore so that hg st won't show them, and the attached patch just does it. It's meant for 'default' but should there be no problem to backport it to previous branches.