diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..8d35cb3277ff6eb0d637147c09e95934604a431c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+__pycache__
+*.pyc