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+# ARCHIE specific debug files
+*.hdf5
+log_*
+
+# C
+## Prerequisites
+*.d
+
+## Object files
+*.o
+*.ko
+*.obj
+*.elf
+
+## Linker output
+*.ilk
+*.map
+*.exp
+
+## Precompiled Headers
+*.gch
+*.pch
+
+## Libraries
+*.lib
+*.a
+*.la
+*.lo
+
+## Shared objects (inc. Windows DLLs)
+*.dll
+*.so
+*.so.*
+*.dylib
+
+## Executables
+*.exe
+*.out
+*.app
+*.i*86
+*.x86_64
+*.hex
+
+## Debug files
+*.dSYM/
+*.su
+*.idb
+*.pdb
+
+# Python3
+## Byte-compiled / optimized / DLL files
+__pycache__/
+*.py[cod]
+*$py.class
+
+## C extensions
+*.so
+
+## Distribution / packaging
+.Python
+build/
+develop-eggs/
+dist/
+downloads/
+eggs/
+.eggs/
+lib/
+lib64/
+parts/
+sdist/
+var/
+wheels/
+share/python-wheels/
+*.egg-info/
+.installed.cfg
+*.egg
+MANIFEST
+
+## PyInstaller
+##  Usually these files are written by a python script from a template
+##  before PyInstaller builds the exe, so as to inject date/other infos into it.
+*.manifest
+*.spec
+
+## Installer logs
+pip-log.txt
+pip-delete-this-directory.txt
+
+## Unit test / coverage reports
+htmlcov/
+.tox/
+.nox/
+.coverage
+.coverage.*
+.cache
+nosetests.xml
+coverage.xml
+*.cover
+*.py,cover
+.hypothesis/
+.pytest_cache/
+cover/
+
+## Translations
+*.mo
+*.pot
+
+## Django stuff:
+*.log
+local_settings.py
+db.sqlite3
+db.sqlite3-journal
+
+## Flask stuff:
+instance/
+.webassets-cache
+
+## Scrapy stuff:
+.scrapy
+
+## Sphinx documentation
+docs/_build/
+
+## PyBuilder
+.pybuilder/
+target/
+
+## Jupyter Notebook
+.ipynb_checkpoints
+
+## IPython
+profile_default/
+ipython_config.py
+
+## pyenv
+##   For a library or package, you might want to ignore these files since the code is
+##   intended to run in multiple environments; otherwise, check them in:
+## .python-version
+
+## pipenv
+##   According to pypa/pipenv#598, it is recommended to include Pipfile.lock in version control.
+##   However, in case of collaboration, if having platform-specific dependencies or dependencies
+##   having no cross-platform support, pipenv may install dependencies that don't work, or not
+##   install all needed dependencies.
+##Pipfile.lock
+
+## PEP 582; used by e.g. github.com/David-OConnor/pyflow
+__pypackages__/
+
+## Celery stuff
+celerybeat-schedule
+celerybeat.pid
+
+## SageMath parsed files
+*.sage.py
+
+## Environments
+.env
+.venv
+env/
+venv/
+ENV/
+env.bak/
+venv.bak/
+
+## Spyder project settings
+.spyderproject
+.spyproject
+
+## Rope project settings
+.ropeproject
+
+## mkdocs documentation
+/site
+
+## mypy
+.mypy_cache/
+.dmypy.json
+dmypy.json
+
+## Pyre type checker
+.pyre/
+
+## pytype static type analyzer
+.pytype/
+
+## Cython debug symbols
+cython_debug/