.gitignore: exclude __pycache__ directories#5838
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Python may leave behind temporary `.pyc.*` files inside `__pycache__` on some filesystems (e.g. WSL2 mounts). Adding `__pycache__/` ensures these directories and any leftover files are consistently ignored. Background: Python writes bytecode to a temp file with an extra suffix before renaming it to `.pyc`. If the process is interrupted or the filesystem rename isn’t fully atomic, those temp files may remain. See: https://docs.python.org/3/library/py_compile.html#py_compile.compile
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I'll merge this without review: this is an extremely trivial PR. |
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Python may leave behind temporary
.pyc.*files inside__pycache__on some filesystems (e.g. WSL2 mounts). Adding__pycache__/ensures these directories and any leftover files are consistently ignored.Background: Python writes bytecode to a temp file with an extra suffix before renaming it to
.pyc. If the process is interrupted or the filesystem rename isn’t fully atomic, those temp files may remain.See: https://docs.python.org/3/library/py_compile.html#py_compile.compile
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