diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
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index 0000000..c77bed0
--- /dev/null
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+.coverage
+htmlcov/
+*~
+__pycache__/
+*.pyc
+/MANIFEST
+build/
+dist/
+*.egg-info