Yue Wang authored 3 years ago and Timo Koch committed 3 years ago

Manual inputs are provided via a human-readable json file which is
under version control. The parameters.txt file is now completely
auto-generated and shouldn't be manually edited. All edits
happen to the json file. This makes sure formatting and data
are separated properly and git changes are minimal.

This changed to be the required way of importing the lib in some newer Python versions.
https://docs.python.org/3.9/library/urllib.request.html and https://bugs.python.org/issue36701 

The commands (e.g. pipeline queries via API) may contain sensible
information that we don't want to display e.g. in the output of jobs
from the GitLab CI