Excluding directory

Question

I am working on a django project and am trying to run pyflakes on an app in it. I need to exclude the "migrations" directory from pyflakes.

For pep8 I can do

pep8 --exclude=migrations app_name

Is there any similar way for pyflakes?

I couldn't find any proper documentation for pyflakes.

score 49 · Answer 1 · answered Jun 30 '14 at 16:52

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Use flake8 tool instead - it is a wrapper around pyflakes, pep8 and mccabe.

Besides other features, it has an --exclude option:

--exclude=patterns    exclude files or directories which match these comma
                      separated patterns (default:
                      .svn,CVS,.bzr,.hg,.git,__pycache__)

answered Jun 30 '14 at 16:52

alecxe

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Thanks for the suggestion, but i was trying to do this with pyflakes – user3148949 Jun 30 '14 at 17:03
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@user3148949 believe me, `flake8` is much more powerful. – alecxe Jun 30 '14 at 17:04
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I'm a big fan of the `pylint` tool, but it's rather slow. Pyflakes is *fast*! Thanks for posting about `flake8`, I'll check that out right now. – johntellsall Jul 01 '14 at 07:01
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To accomplish the original ask with `flake8` use this command: `$ flake8 --exclude=*/migrations/*` – respondcreate Apr 07 '16 at 13:56
@respondcreate : this should be the accepted answer, works with Windows too. – Be Chiller Too Dec 22 '21 at 16:19

score 6 · Accepted Answer · answered Jun 30 '14 at 16:52

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Pyflakes supports a list of files or directories; no "exclude" option

Here's an equivalent:

pep8 `find app_name | egrep -v migrations`

pyflakes manpage: http://man.cx/?page=pyflakes&do%5Bgo%5D=go

answered Jun 30 '14 at 16:52

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pyflakes `find app_name/* | egrep -v migrations`. It worked with a slight modification. Thanks. – user3148949 Jul 01 '14 at 06:44

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