uv: Unified Python packaging
https://astral.sh/blog/uv-unified-python-packaging
Manage entire Python projects and even Python itself with a single unified tool.
TL;DR: uv is an extremely fast Python package manager, written in Rust.
https://astral.sh/blog/uv-unified-python-packaging
Manage entire Python projects and even Python itself with a single unified tool.
TL;DR: uv is an extremely fast Python package manager, written in Rust.
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
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).