Thanks Brian! The out-file command with ascii encoding specified fixed this 
for me. 

On Wednesday, September 26, 2012 1:55:31 AM UTC-4, Brian Peiris wrote:
>
> Thanks John, that was useful. 
> This happens because powershell outputs UTF-16 by default. Another way to 
> fix it is by using the out-file command with an ascii encoding specified:
>
> pip freeze | out-file -enc ascii requirements.txt
>
> On Sunday, March 11, 2012 4:17:59 AM UTC-4, John W. wrote:
>>
>> I know it's weird to reply to myself, but just in case that somebody has 
>> the same problem. 
>>
>> It seems that the problem it is in the requirements.txt, i created it 
>> using powershell and "pip.exe freeze > requirements.txt" command,
>> which creates a file with a name that has nullbytes in it. 
>> I was able to get around this problem by downloading a requirements.txt 
>> from an example project on github and modifying it.
>> That did the job and everything works nice.
>>
>>
>> On Saturday, March 10, 2012 6:06:23 PM UTC+2, John W. wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi. I want to deploy a Django project on Heroku. The logic it's 
>>> straightforward : create a virtualenv, install django, some other stuff, 
>>> pip freeze into requirements.txt, create a git repository and git push it 
>>> to project's repository. From what i've seen it seems like the service 
>>> downloads the project and install virtualenv and pip on virtual server and 
>>> it uses pip to install dependencies listed in requirments.txt . While 
>>> pushing to remote server it looks like everything goes nicely until pip 
>>> starts to install dependencies and then a error happens. I'm new to pip so 
>>> maybe someone already seen this error. Thank you in advance.
>>>
>>> Console snapshot:
>>>
>>> ψ pip.exe freeze
>>> Django==1.3.1
>>> distribute==0.6.24
>>> versiontools==1.8.3
>>> (venv)
>>>
>>> ψ more .\requirements.txt
>>> Django==1.3.1
>>> distribute==0.6.24
>>> versiontools==1.8.3
>>>
>>> (venv)
>>>
>>> ψ git push heroku master
>>> Enter passphrase for key '/c/Program Files (x86)/Vim/.ssh/id_rsa':
>>> Counting objects: 12, done.
>>> Delta compression using up to 2 threads.
>>> Compressing objects: 100% (10/10), done.
>>> Writing objects: 100% (12/12), 3.30 KiB, done.
>>> Total 12 (delta 2), reused 0 (delta 0)
>>>
>>> -----> Heroku receiving push
>>> -----> Python/Django app detected
>>> -----> Preparing virtualenv version 1.7
>>>        New python executable in ./bin/python
>>>        Installing 
>>> distribute.............................................................................................................................................................................................done.
>>>        Installing pip...............done.
>>> -----> Activating virtualenv
>>> -----> Installing dependencies using pip version 1.0.2
>>>        Exception:
>>>        Traceback (most recent call last):
>>>          File 
>>> "/tmp/build_k6zl66ydgqxp/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pip-1.0.2-py2.7.egg/pip/basecommand.py",
>>>  line 126, in main
>>>            self.run(options, args)
>>>          File 
>>> "/tmp/build_k6zl66ydgqxp/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pip-1.0.2-py2.7.egg/pip/commands/install.py",
>>>  line 200, in run
>>>            for req in parse_requirements(filename, finder=finder, 
>>> options=options):
>>>          File 
>>> "/tmp/build_k6zl66ydgqxp/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pip-1.0.2-py2.7.egg/pip/req.py",
>>>  line 1255, in parse_requirements
>>>            req = InstallRequirement.from_line(line, comes_from)
>>>          File 
>>> "/tmp/build_k6zl66ydgqxp/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pip-1.0.2-py2.7.egg/pip/req.py",
>>>  line 82, in from_line
>>>            elif os.path.isdir(path) and (os.path.sep in name or 
>>> name.startswith('.')):
>>>          File "/tmp/build_k6zl66ydgqxp/lib/python2.7/genericpath.py", line 
>>> 41, in isdir
>>>            st = os.stat(s)
>>>        TypeError: must be encoded string without NULL bytes, not str
>>>
>>>        Storing complete log in /app/.pip/pip.log
>>>
>>>  !     Heroku push rejected, failed to compile Python/django app 
>>>
>>

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