gitignore_parser

A spec-compliant gitignore parser for Python

Installation

pip install gitignore_parser

Usage

Suppose /home/michael/project/.gitignore contains the following:

__pycache__/
*.py[cod]

Then:

>>> from gitignore_parser import parse_gitignore
>>> matches = parse_gitignore('/home/michael/project/.gitignore')
>>> matches('/home/michael/project/main.py')
False
>>> matches('/home/michael/project/main.pyc')
True
>>> matches('/home/michael/project/dir/main.pyc')
True
>>> matches('/home/michael/project/__pycache__')
True

Motivation

I couldn't find a good library for doing the above on PyPI. There are several other libraries, but they don't seem to support all features, be it the square brackets in *.py[cod] or top-level paths /....

Attribution

The implementation is based on https://github.com/snark/ignorance/ by Steve Cook.