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.

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The problem I've noticed is that if I append the file with each of the 100k runs (one at a time), it can happen that two threads try to save to the file at the same time and some row (s) end up empty.