[Python] How to get list of modified files of a Git repo in python?

I am trying to write a function using python to determine modified files in a git repository. I saw there are couple of packages:

• Gittle
• git-python
• GitPython

How can I get a list of pathlib.Path instances of modified files?

Python version in use: 3.8

Edit:


In order to check modified files in GitPython I have tried the following:

diff = repo.git.diff('HEAD~1..HEAD', name_only=True)


but this gives me the files that are different, comparing the latest commit with the one before, instead of comparing the latest commit with unstaged changes.

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