diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index d5cf66d1db126..4b1ba1c92bc04 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -61,6 +61,7 @@ project/plugins/project/build.properties
 project/plugins/src_managed/
 project/plugins/target/
 python/lib/pyspark.zip
+python/.eggs/
 python/deps
 python/test_coverage/coverage_data
 python/test_coverage/htmlcov