flake8 exclude doesn't work as expected for directories

[shoyer]

With flake8 alone, if I try to exclude my documentation directory as follows, it works:

flake8 --exclude=doc/ .

However, Stickler-CI includes each file explicitly in the command line invocation, e.g.,

flake8 --exclude=doc/ doc/examples/_code/weather_data_setup.py

With this version, the explicitly listed file is no longer included. Instead, I spent a while being frustrated (thinking I was misusing flake8) and eventually found Stickler's files.ignore option.

It might be worth noting this in the docs somewhere. There appears to already be a bug report upstream for flake8: https://gitlab.com/pycqa/flake8/issues/392

[markstory]

I'm not clear on what changes you're wanting to see made to the documentation? Is it that the exclude option doesn't work on directories?

[shoyer]

Is it that the exclude option doesn't work on directories?

Yes, that's right. You need to specify filenames, e.g., weather_data_setup.py (or use ignore.files).

[markstory]

Ok. I can do that.

[markstory]

Docs are updated in both this project and on stickler-ci.com.

[shoyer]

Thanks!