diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index fe85ab9f..e41c5b3d 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -110,6 +110,12 @@ test-results/
 playwright-report/
 playwright/.cache/
 
+# ===========================
+# Python
+# ===========================
+__pycache__/
+*.pyc
+
 # ===========================
 # Misc
 # ===========================
diff --git a/scripts/__pycache__/check_encoding.cpython-312.pyc b/scripts/__pycache__/check_encoding.cpython-312.pyc
deleted file mode 100644
index 5fdc3427..00000000
Binary files a/scripts/__pycache__/check_encoding.cpython-312.pyc and /dev/null differ