diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index a3d66de0..1e7d34b7 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -8,4 +8,8 @@ lib/tests/rocksdb_bc_data
 venv
 .env
 data/
-.htpasswd
\ No newline at end of file
+.htpasswd
+**/docs/_build
+**/docs/build
+*.so
+*.pyc
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/python/.gitignore b/python/.gitignore
deleted file mode 100644
index 380c055e..00000000
--- a/python/.gitignore
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,4 +0,0 @@
-docs/_build
-docs/build
-*.so
-*.pyc
\ No newline at end of file