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.

Acroterion

Answer 1

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

Armilla

pyflakes find app_name/* | egrep -v migrations. It worked with a slight modification. Thanks. – Acroterion

Answer 2

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__)

Phosgenite

Thanks for the suggestion, but i was trying to do this with pyflakes – Acroterion

@Acroterion believe me, flake8 is much more powerful. – Phosgenite

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. – Armilla

To accomplish the original ask with flake8 use this command: $ flake8 --exclude=*/migrations/* – Hectograph

@Hectograph : this should be the accepted answer, works with Windows too. – Thiazole