REGEX --ignore-files does not ignore

Question

I try to ignore files matching this regular expression :

--ignore-files="^load*\.py$"

i want to ignore all files starting with the pattern load+xxx

when i do like that, the files starting with load are also listed. would please help ? Thanks

Answer 1

Your regex will only match files like

loa.py
load.py
loaddddd.py

because you forgot to add the wildcard "dot" (which means "any character"):

--ignore-files="^load.*\.py$"