Rope (https://bitbucket.org/zjes/rope_py3k/overview) is a refactoring tool for Python. It creates temporary files in `.ropeproject` to cache data. These files should be ignored by default.
@@ -39,6 +39,9 @@ coverage.xml
.project
.pydevproject
+# Rope
+.ropeproject
+
# Django stuff:
*.log
*.pot