Trey Hunner, a seasoned Python trainer and
developer, has been experimenting with uv for a number of tasks
including short script development while also replacing pipx
and pyenv, two tools I routinely use. He hasn’t completely embraced
a substitution but uv does provide an intriguing upside:
The biggest win that I’ve experienced from uv so far is the ability to run an executable script and have any necessary dependencies install automagically.
This doesn’t mean that I never make Python package out of my Python scripts anymore… but I do so much more rarely. I used to create a Python package out of a script as soon as it required third-party dependencies. Now my “do I really need to turn this into a proper package” bar is set much higher.
This relies on a Python packaging standard extension mechanism for embedding metadata in a script.
Pushing this to the limit, would it be possible to declare
xonsh as a dependency and then write the rest of the script in
that shell language?