Excluding directories

AutoAPI makes the reasonable assumption that one's directory structure will look like:

    mypackage/
    ├── docs directory
    │   ├── ...
    │   └── ...
    ├── code directory
    │   ├── ...
    │   └── ...
    └── ...

I have at least one structure however that looks like:

    mypackage/
    ├── docs directory
    │   ├── ...
    │   └── ...
    ├── simple code file
    ├── another simple code file
    └── ...

Using autoapi_dirs = ['..'] means that it descends back into docs where it also finds an env and gobbles up everything it finds in there. Then I get a Relative import with too many levels (and it spends a long time processing the contents of the env too).

Unfortunately autoapi_ignore only appears to work on filenames, not directories.

I'd like a way to be able to exclude all of some arbitrary directory, in my case, /docs

Start by tracing how autoapi_dirs is traversed and how autoapi_ignore is applied to filenames. Exclude matching directories before descending into them, and verify that a directory such as docs, including its env contents, is not processed while other files remain discoverable.