Last month, I wrote Python’s UV tool is actually pretty good about Astral’s new Python package installer and resolver uv, and this is a follow-up post.
Since last month, I have added uv to over a dozen projects, and I recently learned that you could skip the venv step for projects that use containers or CI where the environment is already isolated.
I mistakenly thought uv required a virtual environment (aka venv), but Josh Thomas recently pointed out that it’s unnecessary.
I’m literally saying its speed in certain operations makes an appreciable difference in my workflows, especially when operating on tens of venvs at a time. I don’t know why you want to fight me on my own experience.
I’m not telling anyone who doesn’t want to use uv to do so. Someone asked about motivation, and I shared mine.