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+# prints recursive count of lines of python source code from current directory
+# includes an ignore_list. also prints total sloc
+
+import os
+cur_path = os.getcwd()
+ignore_set = set(["__init__.py", "count_sourcelines.py"])
+
+loc_list = []
+
+for py_dir, _, py_files in os.walk(cur_path):
+    for py_file in py_files:
+        if py_file.endswith(".py") and py_file not in ignore_set:
+            total_path = os.path.join(py_dir, py_file)
+            try:
+                # Open the file with UTF-8 encoding
+                with open(total_path, "r", encoding="utf-8") as file:
+                    loc_list.append((len(file.read().splitlines()),
+                                     total_path.split(cur_path)[1]))
+            except UnicodeDecodeError as e:
+                print(f"Skipping file {total_path} due to encoding error: {e}")
+
+for line_number_count, filename in loc_list:
+    print("%05d lines in %s" % (line_number_count, filename))
+
+print("\nTotal: %s lines (%s)" % (sum([x[0] for x in loc_list]), cur_path))