diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..833c8d385192bd3593913af9cbeb46d3d1be7db5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+__pycache__
+dont_track_me.txt
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/bin/plotcounts.py b/bin/plotcounts.py
index 63c6710e4c55dd3f442cbd0bddeb645f56a44088..86e8e544d3a77f2edf846a98070b21b3d65e119f 100755
--- a/bin/plotcounts.py
+++ b/bin/plotcounts.py
@@ -94,7 +94,6 @@ def main(args):
                      names=('word', 'word_frequency'))
     df['rank'] = df['word_frequency'].rank(ascending=False,
                                            method='max')
-   
     ax = df.plot.scatter(x='word_frequency',
                          y='rank', loglog=True,
                          figsize=[12, 6],