diff --git a/tools/docker-compose/awx-autoreload b/tools/docker-compose/awx-autoreload
index e4a95ec52c..0f6f0b8f9d 100755
--- a/tools/docker-compose/awx-autoreload
+++ b/tools/docker-compose/awx-autoreload
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ last_reload=`date +%s`
 inotifywait -mrq -e create,delete,attrib,close_write,move --exclude '(/awx_devel/awx/ui|/awx_devel/awx/.*/tests)' $1 | while read directory action file; do
    this_reload=`date +%s`
    since_last=$((this_reload-last_reload))
-   if [[ "$file" =~ .*py$ ]] && [[ "$since_last" -gt 1 ]]; then
+   if [[ "$file" =~ ^[^.].*\.py$ ]] && [[ "$since_last" -gt 1 ]]; then
       echo "File changed: $file"
       echo "Running command: $2"
       eval $2