diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 5e38fa3..3385466 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -53,3 +53,6 @@ published/
 # Local blog-workshop tooling stays off the public repo.
 scripts/make-ledger.py
 scripts/sync-nas-blog.sh
+
+# python bytecode from the local ledger script
+scripts/__pycache__/