diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..21fb6a3f785fd3c19b4c87eb44ed79a10edf77f8
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+*.orig
+*.pyc
+__pycache__