diff --git a/examples/demo/.pydocstylerc b/examples/demo/.pydocstylerc
deleted file mode 100644
index daeeb967..00000000
--- a/examples/demo/.pydocstylerc
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-[pydocstyle]
-ignore = F841
diff --git a/setup.cfg b/setup.cfg
index b8044ea4..876b66ee 100644
--- a/setup.cfg
+++ b/setup.cfg
@@ -2,6 +2,8 @@
 max_line_length = 100
 max_complexity = 10
 exclude = types.py
+per-file-ignores =
+    examples/demo/*: F841
 
 [pydocstyle]
 ignore = D100,D101,D102,D105,D106,D107,D203,D213