exclude examples folder from rst validation

1 files changed, 3 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/scripts/check_docstring_formatting.py b/scripts/check_docstring_formatting.py
index 51ad2522..9f91d082 100755
--- a/scripts/check_docstring_formatting.py
+++ b/scripts/check_docstring_formatting.py
@@ -295,7 +295,9 @@ def main():
             print(f"Error: Directory {python_dir} does not exist", file=sys.stderr)
             sys.exit(1)
 
-        files_to_check = find_python_files(python_dir)
+        # Exclude examples subfolder when running with default path
+        files_to_check = [f for f in find_python_files(python_dir)
+                         if 'examples' not in f.parts]
 
     if args.verbose:
         print(f"Checking Python files...")