Extend .gitignore with the standard Python template #705
Description
While working through the notebooks locally I noticed the repo doesn’t ignore typical Python artifacts. Creating a .venv/ or even running a notebook drops a bunch of pycache/ and .ipynb_checkpoints/ paths into git status, which makes it easy to stage them by accident.
Could we extend the existing .gitignore with the standard Python template from GitHub’s collection (https://github.com/github/gitignore/blob/main/Python.gitignore)? That would automatically cover venvs, bytecode caches, notebook checkpoints, etc. I’m happy to open a PR that appends those entries if that sounds good.