Adding python-related exclusions

Author: larsvilhuber

.gitignore

@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 # They are duplicated in upper case and in some cases mixed case to cover all bases
 # If you want to make the parsing overall case-insensitive, you can use the following:
 #  git config core.ignorecase false
-# Version: 2026-02-18
+# Version: 2026-02-27
 *.gpkg
 *.GPKG
 *.bak
@@ -122,6 +122,10 @@ __MACOSX/
 Thumbs.db
 # Stata-specific temp files
 *.stswp
+# Python-specific temp files
+.ipynb_checkpoints
+*.pyc
+__pycache__/
 # build-specific directories
 .rproj*
 .Rhistory