diff --git a/python/ftl/.gitignore b/python/ftl/.gitignore
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..a295864e354f25c935ea5453ab7ec97813b11bd2
--- /dev/null
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+*.pyc
+__pycache__