TL;DR: uv is an extremely fast Python package manager, written in Rust.

  • FizzyOrange@programming.dev
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    2 months ago

    uv is a drop-in replacement for pip. There’s no extra standard. It’s pareto better. Honestly the Python community would do the world a favour if the deprecated pip and adopted uv as the official tool, but you can guess how likely that is…

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      2 months ago

      as you might have guessed i haven’t really tried it, but i have been reading about it. that said i have used “drop in replacement” tools like this (we use pnpm at work), and a drop in replacement is not without quirks. they wouldn’t have made a different tool altogether if it was really a 1:1 replacement. just because the commands are the same doesn’t mean it behaves the same. i.e. i doubt one person on the team could be using uv while everyone else sticks to pip

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        2 months ago

        they wouldn’t have made a different tool altogether if it was really a 1:1 replacement

        Why not? It’s 10x faster.

        I think it might have some other new features but you don’t need to use those.

        i doubt one person on the team could be using uv while everyone else sticks to pip

        This is exactly what we do at work. There’s no way I could convince everyone to switch to uv so I just switch between them based on an environment variable.

        It even supports random stuff like pip install --config-settings editable_mode=compat --editable foo which is required for static tooling to work (e.g. Pyright).