diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..f3a8229e90b031be008ee4b000809d40ec3736e7
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+output
+cache
+*.pyc
+*~