.flake8_nb does not work in certain cases

[jbloom]

I'm using flake8_nb version 0.4.0.

I have a subdirectory in my project called ./docs/ which contains Jupyter notebooks that fail the flaking, e.g. ./docs/fail_flake8.ipynb.

My .flake8_nb configuration file includes docs/*:

[flake8_nb]
exclude =
    .*,
    _*,
    docs/*

Nonetheless, flake8_nb reports failures on the ./docs/fail_flake8.ipynb notebook.

[s-weigand]

If you use docs instead of docs/* it should work.
I tried docs/**/* and it also doesn't work, looks like this is an upstream issue with flake8 (at least on windows where it expands the pattern to a path with \\).
Also, you should rather use extend-exclude instead of exclude, that way you won't overwrite the default values of exclude (['.svn', 'CVS', '.bzr', '.hg', '.git', '__pycache__', '.tox', '.eggs', '*.egg', '.ipynb_checkpoints'])

If the notebook is failing because you want to show off some bad practice, you could just ignore those cells/the specific error in those cells (see cell-tags), that way you can show off the bad practice without accidentally adding some yourself in other places of the notebooks.

Feel free to close this issue if this resolves your problem.

[jbloom]

That worked, thanks!