diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index d3fbcf2..6fa2186 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -4,5 +4,8 @@ deploy
 # virtualenv
 p
 
+# python
+__pycache__
+
 # automatically generated (not a fan that they're here)
 content/search