uv - The Next Generation Python Package Manager

uv is “An extremely fast Python package and project manager, written in Rust.”

Their README promises that the tool can fully replace all of the Python package managers we know, love, and hate including pip (claiming a speed increase of 10-100x), pipx, poetry, virtualenv and more.

Shiny features:

• Cross-platform
• Universal lockfile
• Individual script-running
• Backwards-compatible with pip (shared interface)

There are a few other features like “Cargo-style workspaces for scalable projects”, “global cache”, “runs and installs tools published as Python packages” that I will expound on later

Let’s get started.

Installation

I am using a standalone installation process as follows:

curl -LsSf https://astral.sh/uv/install.sh | sh

downloading uv 0.6.3 aarch64-apple-darwin
no checksums to verify
installing to /Users/svema/.local/bin
  uv
  uvx
everything's installed!

Resources

• GitHub: astral-sh/uv