On Wed, May 12, 2021 at 07:12:39PM -0400, John Snow wrote:
> Ignore *Python* build and package output (build, dist, qemu.egg-info);
> these files are not created as part of a QEMU build.
> 
> Ignore miscellaneous cached python confetti (__pycache__, *.pyc,
> .mypy_cache).
> 
> Ignore .idea (pycharm) .vscode, and .venv (pipenv et al).
> 
> Signed-off-by: John Snow <jsnow@redhat.com>
> ---
>  python/.gitignore | 19 +++++++++++++++++++
>  1 file changed, 19 insertions(+)
>  create mode 100644 python/.gitignore
> 
> diff --git a/python/.gitignore b/python/.gitignore
> new file mode 100644
> index 00000000000..e27c99e009c
> --- /dev/null
> +++ b/python/.gitignore
> @@ -0,0 +1,19 @@
> +# python bytecode cache
> +*.pyc

This is a duplicate from the parent .gitignore, so I would avoid it.

> +__pycache__/

And this one is interesting because, the only thing that *should* be
in __pycache__ dirs is .pyc files (covered by the parent .gitignore
file).

So, I get the same behavior without these two entries here, so I would
skip them.  Let me know if you have any reason for explicitly
including them.

- Cleber.