diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 1742b2a4..84ac4951 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@
 /scripts/continuserv/continuserv
 /scripts/speculator/speculator
 /scripts/swagger
+/scripts/tmp
 /templating/out
 *.pyc
 *.swp
diff --git a/README.rst b/README.rst
index 5c9edac7..2a359db6 100644
--- a/README.rst
+++ b/README.rst
@@ -41,7 +41,7 @@ specs and event schemas in this repository.
 Preparation
 -----------
 
-To use the scripts, it is best to create a Python virtualenv as follows::
+To use the scripts, it is best to create a Python 2.x virtualenv as follows::
 
   virtualenv env
   env/bin/pip install -r scripts/requirements.txt