diff --git a/configure b/configure
index 960ec1ce..1d0229ef 100755
--- a/configure
+++ b/configure
@@ -328,7 +328,7 @@ EOF
             execute << EOF
               cd "\${QP_ROOT}"/external
               tar --gunzip --extract --file resultsFile.tar.gz 
-              mv resultsFile-master/resultsFile "\${QP_ROOT}/external/Python"
+              mv resultsFile-master/resultsFile "\${QP_ROOT}/external/Python/"
               rm --recursive --force resultsFile-master resultsFile.tar.gz
 EOF
 
diff --git a/external/Python/.gitignore b/external/Python/.gitignore
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..e69de29b