SNOW-938301: snow streamlit init my-app creates a __pycache__ directory

[sfc-gh-asaini]

SnowCLI version

1.2.0

Python version

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Platform

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What happened

❯ snow streamlit init my_app
Initialized the new project in my_app/

❯ cd my_app
❯ ll
total 16
drwxr-xr-x  3 asaini  staff    96B Oct 11 22:24 __pycache__
-rw-r--r--  1 asaini  staff    62B Oct 11 22:24 environment.yml
-rw-r--r--  1 asaini  staff    58B Oct 11 22:24 main.py
drwxr-xr-x  4 asaini  staff   128B Oct 11 22:24 pages
❯ ll __pycache__
total 8
-rw-r--r--  1 asaini  staff   287B Oct 11 22:24 main.cpython-38.pyc

Further the presence of this directory blocks the creation of an app

❯ snow streamlit deploy snowcli-test --file main.py --query-warehouse hlevel1
An unexpected exception occurred. Use --debug option to see the traceback.
Exception message:
253006: Not a file but a directory: /Users/asaini/work/snowcli-1-20-test/my_app/pages/__pycache__

What is the purpose of this __pycache__ directory?

Console output

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How to reproduce

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[sfc-gh-turbaszek]

__pycache__ is a directory that is created by the Python interpreter when it imports a module. It's related to how python works not snowcli.

We should consider adding .snowflake_ignore or using .gitignore to ignore files when uploading 🤔

For now, we will just upload .py files