Please consider the following shell session. It seems as soon as I redirect the virtualenv python's output to a file, the encoding becomes "ascii" and hence unicode characters cannot be written. This ...

with open("myfile.txt", "w") as file: file.write("This is the text I intend to write in my file.\n") file.write("This is the second line.\n") file.write("This text ...

The newly approved Python Enhancement Proposal 751 gives Python a standard lock file format for specifying the dependencies of projects. Here’s the what, why, and when.

Writing 100k rows at a time should be fine, so I could write to the file once for each parameter combination.