In Eclipse PyDev, is there a way to exclude arbitrary file types from the Pydev package explorer?

Question

If you click on an icon that looks like a triangle, indicating a failure in the PyDev package explorer, and then select Customize View, the Available Settings pop-up window allows the user to choose which of the standard file sets will be visible in the package explorer.

Great if you want to exclude or include certain types of files from the view, however I would like to exclude the type that PyDev is currently unknown.

In this case, I would like to exclude "*, cover" - any automatically generated coverage report file. PyDev creates these files when you try to start coverage analysis, but there seems to be no way to exclude these files from the views. I would like to hide all the cover files to reduce clutter in my package explorer.

Answer 1

To the left of the down arrow is the Custom Filter Settings button. You can enter special filters, separated by commas. If there is a comma in this file name, you will need to enter a filter like *cover , since *,cover treated as two separate filters.