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Many tools such as ripgrep respect the .gitignore file in the directory
it's searching in. This helps make it incredibly faster and generally
more intuitive for the user as it just searches files that are part of
thier project and not things like their virtual environments, node
modules, or compiled builds.
Editors like vscode often do not include files that are .gitignored in their search either.
pathspec is a pattern matching library that implements git's wildmatch
pattern so that you can ignore files included in your .gitignore
patterns. You might want this to help make your libraries more
performant, or more intuitive for you users.
import pathspec from pathlib import Path markdown_files = Path().glob('**/*.md') if (Path(".gitignore").exists(): lines = Path(".gitignore").read_text().splitlines() spec = pathspec.PathSpec.from_lines("gitwildmatch", lines) markdown_files = [ file for file in markdown_files if not spec.match_file(str(file)) ]
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