Best practices for adding gitignore file for Python projects

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I m trying to collect some of my default settings  and one thing I realized I don t have a standard for is  gitignore files  There s a great thread showing a good  gitignore for Visual Studio projects  but I don t see many recommendations for Python and related tools  PyGTK  Django    So far  I have       pyc   pyo      for the compiled objects and     build  dist       for the setuptools output   What are some best practices for  gitignore files  and where can I go for more about these best practices

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Here are some other files that may be left behind by setuptools   MANIFEST   egg-info

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Covers most of the general stuff -    Byte-compiled   optimized   DLL files   pycache      py cod    py class    C extensions   so    Distribution   packaging  Python build  develop-eggs  dist  downloads  eggs   eggs  lib  lib64  parts  sdist  var  wheels    egg-info   installed cfg   egg MANIFEST    PyInstaller    Usually these files are written by a python script from a template    before PyInstaller builds the exe  so as to inject date other infos into it    manifest   spec    Installer logs pip-log txt pip-delete-this-directory txt    Unit test   coverage reports htmlcov   tox   coverage  coverage    cache nosetests xml coverage xml   cover  hypothesis   pytest cache     Translations   mo   pot    Django stuff    log local settings py db sqlite3    Flask stuff  instance   webassets-cache    Scrapy stuff   scrapy    Sphinx documentation docs  build     PyBuilder target     Jupyter Notebook  ipynb checkpoints    pyenv  python-version    celery beat schedule file celerybeat-schedule    SageMath parsed files   sage py    Environments  env  venv env  venv  ENV  env bak  venv bak     Spyder project settings  spyderproject  spyproject    Rope project settings  ropeproject    mkdocs documentation  site    mypy  mypy cache    Reference  python  gitignore

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Github has a great boilerplate  gitignore    Byte-compiled   optimized   DLL files   pycache      py cod     C extensions   so    Distribution   packaging bin  build  develop-eggs  dist  eggs  lib  lib64  parts  sdist  var    egg-info   installed cfg   egg    Installer logs pip-log txt pip-delete-this-directory txt    Unit test   coverage reports  tox   coverage  cache nosetests xml coverage xml    Translations   mo    Mr Developer  mr developer cfg  project  pydevproject    Rope  ropeproject    Django stuff    log   pot    Sphinx documentation docs  build

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One question is if you also want to use git for the deploment of your projects  If so you probably would like to exclude your local sqlite file from the repository  same probably applies to file uploads  mostly in your media folder    I m talking about django now  since your question is also tagged with django

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local settings py  for django projects      for all projects

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When using buildout I have following in  gitignore  along with   pyo and   pyc     installed cfg bin develop-eggs dist downloads eggs parts src   egg-info lib lib64   Thanks to Jacob Kaplan-Moss  Also I tend to put  svn in since we use several SCM-s where I work

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