PyCharm: always mark venv directory as excluded

Question

In Python 3, I've moved away from creating virtualenvs in ~/.virtualenvs and towards keeping them in the project directory ./venv

However now search results in every PyCharm project include results from venv subdirectories, until you manually right-click and exclude them from the project.

How to omit directories named venv from PyCharm indexing/searching, globally?

Answer 1

In File > Settings > Project: > Project Structure at the bottom is Exclude files: You can put something in there like

venv or venv;coverage.xml (given your comment)

It doesn't seem to recognize paths (e.g. foo/venv), but this does what you requested.

Answer 2

You can globally exclude a directory in PyCharm by following the Breadcrumb trail:

Settings > Editor > File Types > Ignore Files and Folders:

At the bottom is a text box where you can input the symbolic link ./venv relative to your projects base directory, highlighted in the picture:

After that, new projects have ./venv excluded by default. You don't need to repeat the above steps for new projects. In use, "Find in Path" shows:

P.S. I also started keeping my venvs inside their project directories. Once you have dozens of projects it just becomes convenient.