diff --git a/synthtool/gcp/templates/python_library/.coveragerc b/synthtool/gcp/templates/python_library/.coveragerc
index 90767ba5d..bf8fc40c4 100644
--- a/synthtool/gcp/templates/python_library/.coveragerc
+++ b/synthtool/gcp/templates/python_library/.coveragerc
@@ -18,6 +18,7 @@
 [run]
 branch = True
 omit =
+  google/__init__.py
   google/cloud/__init__.py
 
 [report]