diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 408a34c96..78bbd3eb0 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -8,5 +8,5 @@ build/stamps/*
 *.pyc
 utils/*
 *.log
-build/ext_*
+build/*
 src/python/stdlib/*
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/build/powder b/build/powder
deleted file mode 100755
index 80e14bd1c..000000000
Binary files a/build/powder and /dev/null differ
diff --git a/build/tptPython.zip b/build/tptPython.zip
deleted file mode 100644
index 36dc08774..000000000
Binary files a/build/tptPython.zip and /dev/null differ
diff --git a/src/main.c b/src/main.c
index 735422080..2b4142632 100644
--- a/src/main.c
+++ b/src/main.c
@@ -2076,10 +2076,10 @@ int main(int argc, char *argv[])
     
     //initialise python console
     Py_Initialize();
+    PyRun_SimpleString("print 'python present.'");
     Py_InitModule("tpt", EmbMethods);
     //change the path to find all the correct modules
     PyRun_SimpleString("import sys\nsys.path.append('./tptPython.zip')\nsys.path.append('.')");
-    PyRun_SimpleString("print 'python present.'");
     //load the console module and whatnot
     #ifdef PYEXT
     PyRun_SimpleString(tpt_console_py);