Negation Pattern in python.analysis.exclude

[bestickley]

I've read https://github.com/microsoft/pylance-release/wiki/Opening-Large-Workspaces-in-VS-Code but I still have a question: is it possible for me to exclude everything in my monorepo except one folder? I'd like to do:

"python.analysis.exclude": ["**", "!packages/assistant/svc/python"]

[rchiodo]

Internally it's actually a regex comparison (not a real glob). This code here is what ultimately gets called to see if a file is excluded or not:

https://github.com/microsoft/pyright/blob/41b8d83170e80acb2999a07f1341505ad6221c7a/packages/pyright-internal/src/common/uri/fileUri.ts#L130

The glob is converted to a regex here:

https://github.com/microsoft/pyright/blob/41b8d83170e80acb2999a07f1341505ad6221c7a/packages/pyright-internal/src/common/uri/uriUtils.ts#L210

Which doesn't have support for !.

I think this might work? (Copilot generated it for me)

"python.analyis.exclude": ["*(?!packages/assistant/svc/python)*$"]

It needs to not match packages/assistant/svc/python, but match everything else.

[erictraut]

Rather than excluding all subdirectories but one, you could "include" only that directory. That wouldn't require negation.

"python.analysis.include": ["packages/assistant/svc/python"]

[bestickley]

@erictraut, exactly what I was looking for. Thank you!