diff --git a/.travis.yml b/.travis.yml
index 120e7c6e6..8dec277b9 100644
--- a/.travis.yml
+++ b/.travis.yml
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ install:
 script:
   - "pip install pytest pytest-timeout"
   - if [[ "${VIA}" == "compile" ]]; then python -m pytest --tb=native spacy; fi
-  - if [[ "${VIA}" == "flake8" ]]; then flake8 . --count --exclude=spacy/lang --select=E901,E999,F821,F822,F823 --show-source --statistics; fi  
+  - if [[ "${VIA}" == "flake8" ]]; then flake8 . --count --exclude=spacy/compat.py,spacy/lang --select=E901,E999,F821,F822,F823 --show-source --statistics; fi  
   - if [[ "${VIA}" == "pypi_nightly" ]]; then python -m pytest --tb=native --models --en `python -c "import os.path; import spacy; print(os.path.abspath(os.path.dirname(spacy.__file__)))"`; fi
   - if [[ "${VIA}" == "sdist" ]]; then python -m pytest --tb=native `python -c "import os.path; import spacy; print(os.path.abspath(os.path.dirname(spacy.__file__)))"`; fi