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Virtualenv’s been a thing for many years, it’s built into Python, and it solves all that without adding additional tooling. And if you’re genuinely asking, eve
by kstrauser 2y ago
Virtualenv’s been a thing for many years, it’s built into Python, and it solves all that without adding additional tooling.
And if you’re genuinely asking, everything’s converging toward uv. If you pick only one, use that and be done with it.
- hedora 2y agoI’ve been using virtualenv for a decade, and we use uv at work. Neither fixed anything. They just make it slightly less painful to deal with python scripts’ constant bitrot. They also make python uniquely difficult to dockerize.
- kstrauser 2y agoThat's so completely, diametrically opposite of my experience with both that I can't help but wonder how it ended up there. > They also make python uniquely difficult to dockerize. RUN pip install uv && uv sync Tada, done. No, seriously. That's the whole invocation.
- pmarreck 2y agoSo you've never encountered a stale python project that used to work and had difficulties getting it up and running again? Do you actually try new Python projects out with git-clone, or do you just use the same 3 Python projects for years at a time (all regularly)? That might explain the difference in experiences