diff --git a/setup.cfg b/setup.cfg
index 0892cdb..f07c382 100644
--- a/setup.cfg
+++ b/setup.cfg
@@ -1,2 +1,2 @@
 [flake8]
-exclude = **/migrations/*,**/urls.py
+exclude = **/migrations/*,**/urls.py,colab/utils/tests/settings_with_syntax_error.py
--
libgit2 0.21.2