diff --git a/conf.py b/conf.py
index 2c0b4efdb786055b21436a0ddcb9c918b3915a27..0b60e726eeb13c3397d21ca61df1aead98cb9f0f 100644
--- a/conf.py
+++ b/conf.py
@@ -87,7 +87,7 @@ navigation_with_keys = True
 # List of patterns, relative to source directory, that match files and
 # directories to ignore when looking for source files.
 # This pattern also affects html_static_path and html_extra_path.
-exclude_patterns = ['_build', 'Thumbs.db', '.DS_Store', 'env']
+exclude_patterns = ['_build', 'Thumbs.db', '.DS_Store', 'env', ".venv"]
 
 html_theme = 'sphinx_rtd_theme'
 html_show_sphinx = False