Get changed files using gitpython

Question

I want to get a list of changed files of the current git-repo. The files, that are normally listed under Changes not staged for commit: when calling git status.

So far I have managed to connected to the repository, pulled it and show all untracked files:

from git import Repo
repo = Repo(pk_repo_path)
o = self.repo.remotes.origin
o.pull()[0]
print(repo.untracked_files)

But now I want to show all files, that have changes (not commited). Can anybody push me in the right direction? I looked at the names of the methods of repo and experimented for a while, but I can't find the correct solution.

Obviously I could call repo.git.status and parse the files, but that isn't elegant at all. There must be something better.

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Edit: Now that I think about it. More usefull would be a function, that tells me the status for a single file. Like:

print(repo.get_status(path_to_file))
>>untracked
print(repo.get_status(path_to_another_file))
>>not staged

Answer 1

for item in repo.index.diff(None):
    print item.a_path

or to get just the list:

changedFiles = [ item.a_path for item in repo.index.diff(None) ]

repo.index.diff() returns git.diff.Diffable described in http://gitpython.readthedocs.io/en/stable/reference.html#module-git.diff

So function can look like this:

def get_status(repo, path):
    changed = [ item.a_path for item in repo.index.diff(None) ]
    if path in repo.untracked_files:
        return 'untracked'
    elif path in changed:
        return 'modified'
    else:
        return 'don''t care'

Answer 2

just to catch up on @ciasto piekarz question: depending on what you want to show:

repo.index.diff(None)

does only list files that have not been staged

repo.index.diff('Head')

does only list files that have been staged