From 8e78b0ae11afdb0c1fa8396efe7bbe7cd8adbd56 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: elhoim <elhoim@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 2026 13:44:39 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Add .gitignore for Python build and tooling artifacts

The repository has no .gitignore, so routine local activity (running the
CLI, pytest, a build, or a linter) leaves __pycache__/, *.pyc, .pytest_cache/,
dist/ and similar artifacts showing as untracked files. That makes it easy to
commit them by accident and noisy to review 'git status'.

Adds a standard Python .gitignore covering bytecode, packaging output, test and
coverage output, type-checker and linter caches, virtualenvs, editor/OS cruft,
and merge leftovers.

Verified that no currently tracked file matches any of the new patterns
(git ls-files -i -c --exclude-standard is empty), so nothing already in the
repository becomes ignored.
---
 .gitignore | 51 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 51 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 .gitignore

diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..0a454ed
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -0,0 +1,51 @@
+# Byte-compiled / optimized / DLL files
+__pycache__/
+*.py[cod]
+*$py.class
+
+# Distribution / packaging
+build/
+dist/
+wheels/
+*.egg
+*.egg-info/
+.eggs/
+MANIFEST
+
+# Installer logs
+pip-log.txt
+pip-delete-this-directory.txt
+
+# Unit test / coverage reports
+.pytest_cache/
+.tox/
+.nox/
+.coverage
+.coverage.*
+coverage.xml
+htmlcov/
+
+# Type checkers and linters
+.mypy_cache/
+.dmypy.json
+.pyre/
+.pytype/
+.ruff_cache/
+
+# Virtual environments
+.env
+.venv/
+venv/
+ENV/
+
+# Editor and OS cruft
+.idea/
+.vscode/
+*.swp
+*~
+.DS_Store
+Thumbs.db
+
+# Merge / patch leftovers
+*.orig
+*.rej