# ── Python ────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
__pycache__/
*.py[cod]
*.so
*.egg
*.egg-info/
dist/
build/
.venv/
venv/
.env
.env.*

# ── Testing & Coverage ────────────────────────────────────────────────────
.coverage
htmlcov/
.pytest_cache/
.mypy_cache/
.ruff_cache/

# ── Jupyter ───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
.ipynb_checkpoints/

# ── IDE & OS ──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
.vscode/
.idea/
.DS_Store
Thumbs.db

# ── Logs & Temp ───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
*.log
tmp/
temp/

# ── Secrets ───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
secrets/
*.pem
*.key
credentials.json

# ── AI/ML Artifacts ───────────────────────────────────────────────────────
models/
checkpoints/
tensorboard/
wandb/
mlruns/

# ── Validation Pipeline Outputs (generated, not committed) ────────────────
# Note: capital-V Validation/ is the runtime output dir; lowercase validation/ is source code.
# On case-insensitive filesystems (macOS) we match by extension/subdir name instead.
Validation/dataset/*.png
Validation/dataset/*.json
Validation/dataset/*.csv
Validation/Quality_Index/
Validation/OCR_Output/
Validation/Ground_Truth_Analysis/
Validation/Hypothesis_Testing/
Validation/Research_Artifacts/
Validation/Plots/
Validation/Paper_Assets/
Validation/reports/validation_report.md
