uv

uv is a tool that acts as an entry point for Python tooling. It tries to offer a similar experience as Cargo (and it is written in Rust, so they probably got a lot of influence from its tooling).

The basic usage is the following:

uv init test-project
cd ./test-project
uv venv
uv add rich typer
uv pip list
uv tool install black     # Installs black globally like pipx

Overall my first impression of uv was great. It has a nice UX with intuitive commands and it is quite fast at fetching packages and dependencies.

I always thought that the Python ecosystem was a bit messy in terms of tooling, as there were no unified tools such as uv. I generally use Poetry to manage dependencies in more complex projects. If I’m doing something simple, I’d generally just use regular pip with venvs directly. I think I’ll start using uv for everything now and see how it goes.

References

https://docs.astral.sh/uv/