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Sep 2024
1h 12m

#476: Unified Python packaging with uv

MICHAEL KENNEDY
About this episode
A couple of weeks ago, Charlie Marsh and the folks at Astral made another big splash with a major release of uv called "uv: Unified Python packaging" which has many far reaching features. We had to have Charlie on the show to give us the inside look into this development. Let's get to it.

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Charlie Marsh on Twitter: @charliermarsh
Charlie Marsh on Mastodon: @charliermarsh

Episode follow up: Wrote up how we use uv at Talk Python: mkennedy.codes

uv: Unified Python packaging: astral.sh
Python executable management: astral.sh
Projects: astral.sh
Tools: astral.sh
Scripts: astral.sh
Rye and uv: August is Harvest Season for Python Packaging: lucumr.pocoo.org
Python Build Standalone releases: github.com
Rules: astral.sh
Watch this episode on YouTube: youtube.com
Episode transcripts: talkpython.fm

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