uv package manager

Mon, 27 Jan 2025 00:00:00 +0000

I recently came across this post, Uv has a killer feature you should know about, which led me to discover the uv package and project manager for Python. This seems to be the new preferred tool for managing python versions/dependencies as it’s faster and can replace pyenv, pip, virtualenv, and others.

It just saved me some headache as I tend to mostly use python for various tools and I tried to install a package the other day with pip install but it failed with some inscrutable error. Then I realized the package wouldn’t work with python 3.13 which I’d been using — and python 3.12 was causing a sub dependency to throw warnings — but 3.11 turned out to be the lucky version which uv made it easy to setup with:

uv python install 3.11
uv add tool <package>

Their docs were really helpful and installing it was pretty easy even on windows.

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