Way to exclude files from module

[pzelnip]

Is there any way to say "I want to run removestar over all files in my project except the ones in this directory?"

In many of our projects we have a directory where import *'s are quite useful and would be cumbersome to replace with explicit imports, but those are restricted to a specific folder within the project.

For example we might have a directory structure like:

someproj/
    / tests
    / packagea
    / packageb
        / subpackageb_a
    / exclude_this

And I'd like to be able to do something like:

removestar someproj --exclude someproj/exclude_this

And have removestar run over everything in tests, packagea, packageb, etc, but not exclude_this

Alternatively, is there a pragma or directive one could put in a source file to have it excluded from being modified/examined by removestar? (thinking like the #pylint: disable directive that Pylint supports )

[asmeurer]

This doesn't exist yet but it should. Exclusion can be done currently using advanced shell globbing. https://www.gnu.org/savannah-checkouts/gnu/bash/manual/bash.html#Pattern-Matching