diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 19da3294613b5d3ac00b995651ff3e617b47c06f..db5d92656e0ef91d17a1b04125755f0f8e4d8959 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
+snippets/
+binarycpython_snippets
 core
 notes/
-snippets/
 make_output.txt
 tests/population/scaling/scaling_plots/*
 tests/population/scaling/scaling_results/*