Python Sphinx exclude patterns

I’m generating documentation with Sphinx for project with structure like this :

+ project
|
+- docs
|
+- tests
|
+- workflow -+- definitions -+- <some folders>
             | 
             +- <rest of the project>

I want to exclude tests, and workflow/definition from documentation.

I tried exclude pattern in docs/conf.py

exclude_patterns = ['**/workflow/definitions', 'workflow/definitions', '*workflow/definitions', 'workflow/definitions*', 'workflow/definitions/*', 'workflow/definitions/*.*']

But even though workflow/definitions are still automatically generated.

Could someone show me correct exclude pattern how to ignore ‘definitions’ folder ?

Answer

exclude_patterns can be used to exclude source files (reStructuredText files) from processing by sphinx-build.

exclude_patterns has no effect when using sphinx-apidoc to generate reStructuredText files from Python modules (but you can tell sphinx-apidoc that certain pathnames should be excluded from the generation).