By default, `uv venv <venv-name>` currently removes the `<venv-name`>
directory if it exists. This can be surprising behavior: not everyone
expects an existing environment to be overwritten. This PR updates the
default to fail if a non-empty `<venv-name>` directory already exists
and neither `--allow-existing` nor the new `-c/--clear` option is
provided (if a TTY is detected, it prompts first). If it's not a TTY,
then uv will only warn and not fail for now — we'll make this an error
in the future. I've also added a corresponding `UV_VENV_CLEAR` env var.
I've chosen to use `--clear` instead of `--force` for this option
because it is used by the `venv` module and `virtualenv` and will be
familiar to users. I also think its meaning is clearer in this context
than `--force` (which could plausibly mean force overwrite just the
virtual environment files, which is what our current `--allow-existing`
option does).
Closes#1472.
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Co-authored-by: Zanie Blue <contact@zanie.dev>
> NOTE: The PRs that were merged into this feature branch have all been
independently reviewed. But it's also useful to see all of the changes
in their final form. I've added comments to significant changes
throughout the PR to aid discussion.
This PR introduces transparent Python version upgrades to uv, allowing
for a smoother experience when upgrading to new patch versions.
Previously, upgrading Python patch versions required manual updates to
each virtual environment. Now, virtual environments can transparently
upgrade to newer patch versions.
Due to significant changes in how uv installs and executes managed
Python executables, this functionality is initially available behind a
`--preview` flag. Once an installation has been made upgradeable through
`--preview`, subsequent operations (like `uv venv -p 3.10` or patch
upgrades) will work without requiring the flag again. This is
accomplished by checking for the existence of a minor version symlink
directory (or junction on Windows).
### Features
* New `uv python upgrade` command to upgrade installed Python versions
to the latest available patch release:
```
# Upgrade specific minor version
uv python upgrade 3.12 --preview
# Upgrade all installed minor versions
uv python upgrade --preview
```
* Transparent upgrades also occur when installing newer patch versions:
```
uv python install 3.10.8 --preview
# Automatically upgrades existing 3.10 environments
uv python install 3.10.18
```
* Support for transparently upgradeable Python `bin` installations via
`--preview` flag
```
uv python install 3.13 --preview
# Automatically upgrades the `bin` installation if there is a newer patch version available
uv python upgrade 3.13 --preview
```
* Virtual environments can still be tied to a patch version if desired
(ignoring patch upgrades):
```
uv venv -p 3.10.8
```
### Implementation
Transparent upgrades are implemented using:
* Minor version symlink directories (Unix) or junctions (Windows)
* On Windows, trampolines simulate paths with junctions
* Symlink directory naming follows Python build standalone format: e.g.,
`cpython-3.10-macos-aarch64-none`
* Upgrades are scoped to the minor version key (as represented in the
naming format: implementation-minor version+variant-os-arch-libc)
* If the context does not provide a patch version request and the
interpreter is from a managed CPython installation, the `Interpreter`
used by `uv python run` will use the full symlink directory executable
path when available, enabling transparently upgradeable environments
created with the `venv` module (`uv run python -m venv`)
New types:
* `PythonMinorVersionLink`: in a sense, the core type for this PR, this
is a representation of a minor version symlink directory (or junction on
Windows) that points to the highest installed managed CPython patch
version for a minor version key.
* `PythonInstallationMinorVersionKey`: provides a view into a
`PythonInstallationKey` that excludes the patch and prerelease. This is
used for grouping installations by minor version key (e.g., to find the
highest available patch installation for that minor version key) and for
minor version directory naming.
### Compatibility
* Supports virtual environments created with:
* `uv venv`
* `uv run python -m venv` (using managed Python that was installed or
upgraded with `--preview`)
* Virtual environments created within these environments
* Existing virtual environments from before these changes continue to
work but aren't transparently upgradeable without being recreated
* Supports both standard Python (`python3.10`) and freethreaded Python
(`python3.10t`)
* Support for transparently upgrades is currently only available for
managed CPython installations
Closes#7287Closes#7325Closes#7892Closes#9031Closes#12977
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Co-authored-by: Zanie Blue <contact@zanie.dev>
## Summary
It turns out that we were returning slightly different interpreter paths
on repeated `uv run --with` commands. This likely didn't affect many (or
any?) users, but it does affect our test suite, since in the test suite,
we use a symlinked interpreter.
The issue is that on first invocation, we create the virtual
environment, and that returns the path to the `python` executable in the
environment. On second invocation, we return the `python3` executable,
since that gets priority during discovery. This on its own is
potentially ok. The issue is that these resolve to different
`sys._base_executable` values in these flows... The latter gets the
correct value (since it's read from the `home` key), but the former gets
the incorrect value (since it's just the `base_executable` of the
executable that created the virtualenv, which is the symlink).
We now use the same logic to determine the "cached interpreter" as in
virtual environment creation, to ensure consistency between those paths.
As per
https://matklad.github.io/2021/02/27/delete-cargo-integration-tests.html
Before that, there were 91 separate integration tests binary.
(As discussed on Discord — I've done the `uv` crate, there's still a few
more commits coming before this is mergeable, and I want to see how it
performs in CI and locally).
Whew this is a lot.
The user-facing changes are:
- `uv toolchain` to `uv python` e.g. `uv python find`, `uv python
install`, ...
- `UV_TOOLCHAIN_DIR` to` UV_PYTHON_INSTALL_DIR`
- `<UV_STATE_DIR>/toolchains` to `<UV_STATE_DIR>/python` (with
[automatic
migration](https://github.com/astral-sh/uv/pull/4735/files#r1663029330))
- User-facing messages no longer refer to toolchains, instead using
"Python", "Python versions" or "Python installations"
The internal changes are:
- `uv-toolchain` crate to `uv-python`
- `Toolchain` no longer referenced in type names
- Dropped unused `SystemPython` type (previously replaced)
- Clarified the type names for "managed Python installations"
- (more little things)
## Summary
Refreshes some of the activation scripts, and fixes some bugs in
`activate_this.py` that were likely the rest of some erroneous
copy-pasting.
Closes https://github.com/astral-sh/uv/issues/3346.
## Test Plan
```
❯ python
Python 3.12.0 (main, Feb 28 2024, 09:44:16) [Clang 15.0.0 (clang-1500.1.0.2.5)] on darwin
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import httpx
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'httpx'
>>> activator = '.venv/bin/activate_this.py'
>>> with open(activator) as f:
... exec(f.read(), {'__file__': activator})
...
>>> import httpx
```
When running
```
set UV_CACHE_DIR=%LOCALAPPDATA%\uv\cache-foo && uv venv venv
```
in windows CMD, the error would be just
```
error: The system cannot find the path specified. (os error 3)
```
The problem is that the first action in the cache dir is adding the tag,
and the `cachedir` crate is using `std::fs` instead of `fs_err`. I've
copied the two functions we use from the crate and changed the import
from `std::fs` to `fs_err`.
The new error is
```
error: failed to open file `C:\Users\Konstantin\AppData\Local\uv\cache-foo \CACHEDIR.TAG`
Caused by: The system cannot find the path specified. (os error 3)
```
which correctly explains the problem.
Closes#3280
## Summary
This is mainly a cleanup PR to leverage uv-version in uv-virtualenv
instead of passing it via `uv`.
In #1852 I introduced the ability to pass extra cfg to `gourgeist` for
the primary purpose of passing the uv version, but since the dawn of the
uv-version crate dynamically passing more values to pyvenv.cfg is no
longer needed.
## Test Plan
Existing `uv` tests should still verify `uv = <version>` exists in the
venv and make sure no regressions were introduced.
Scott schafer got me the idea: We can avoid repeating the path for
workspaces dependencies everywhere if we declare them in the virtual
package once and treat them as workspace dependencies from there on.
## Summary
I tried out `cargo shear` to see if there are any unused dependencies
that `cargo udeps` isn't reporting. It turned out, there are a few. This
PR removes those dependencies.
## Test Plan
`cargo build`
The architecture of uv does not necessarily match that of the python
interpreter (#2326). In cross compiling/testing scenarios the operating
system can also mismatch. To solve this, we move arch and os detection
to python, vendoring the relevant pypa/packaging code, preventing
mismatches between what the python interpreter was compiled for and what
uv was compiled for.
To make the scripts more manageable, they are now a directory in a
tempdir and we run them with `python -m` . I've simplified the
pypa/packaging code since we're still building the tags in rust. A
`Platform` is now instantiated by querying the python interpreter for
its platform. The pypa/packaging files are copied verbatim for easier
updates except a `lru_cache()` python 3.7 backport.
Error handling is done by a `"result": "success|error"` field that allow
passing error details to rust:
```console
$ uv venv --no-cache
× Can't use Python at `/home/konsti/projects/uv/.venv/bin/python3`
╰─▶ Unknown operation system `linux`
```
I've used the [maturin sysconfig
collection](855f6d2cb1/sysconfig)
as reference. I'm unsure how to test these changes across the wide
variety of platforms.
Fixes#2326
## Summary
This PR migrates our virtualenv creation from a setup that assumes prior
knowledge of the correct paths, to a technique borrowed from
`virtualenv` whereby we use `sysconfig` and `distutils` to determine the
paths. The general trick is to grab the expected paths with `sysconfig`,
then make them all relative, then make them absolute for a given
directory.
Closes#2095.
Closes#2153.
## Summary
This will make it easier to use the paths returned by `distutils.py`
(for some cases). No code or behavior changes; just removing some fields
we don't need.
## Summary
I think Camino is nice but it makes it much harder to work in
`uv-virtualenv`, since it's the _only_ crate that uses it. If we want to
use Camino, we should use it everywhere IMO.
John Mumm
Charlie Marsh
konsti
Amos Wenger
Zanie Blue
samypr100
Micha Reiser