diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..f768f7909ca84a190cd6d52a1522bf55d0a7e55d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -0,0 +1,19 @@
+.pydevproject
+.project
+.cproject
+.settings
+obj
+bin
+core*
+*~
+*.pyc
+*.so
+*.so*
+.pylintrc
+.metadata
+.idea
+.cvsignore
+.nse_depinfo
+software
+oldsrc
+CVS