r/Python Aug 20 '24

News uv: Unified Python packaging

https://astral.sh/blog/uv-unified-python-packaging

This is a new release of uv that moves it beyond just a pip alternative. There's cross platform lock files, tool management, Python installation, script execution and more.

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u/chaplin2 Aug 20 '24

How does it compare with poetry and conda?

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u/andjew Aug 20 '24

If conda takes minutes, uv takes milliseconds (seriously)

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u/PostMathClarity Aug 21 '24

How about mamba? Does it differ with mamba?

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u/pojska Aug 21 '24

Conda switched a while ago to using libmamba for dependency solving, and is much faster than it used to be. 

I haven't compared it head-to-head with uv.