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konsti 6e310f2702 Rewrite resolver docs (#5723)
This PR rewrites the resolver concept and adds a resolver internals page
targeted at power users.

The new resolution concept documentation has three parts:
* An introduction for people how never heard of "resolution" before, and
a motivating example what it does. I've also shoved the part about
equally valid resolutions in there.
* Features you commonly use: Non-universal vs. universal resolution,
lowest resolution amd pre-releases.
* Expert features, we don't advertise them, you'll only need them in
complex cases when you already know and i kept them to the reference
points you need in this case: Constraints, overrides and exclude-newer.

I intentionally didn't lay out any detail of the resolution itself, the
idea is that users get a vague sense of "uv has to select fitting
versions", but then they learn the options they have to use and some
common failure points without ever coming near SAT or even graphs.

The resolution internals reference page is targeted at power users who
need to understand what is going on behind the scenes. It assumes ample
prior knowledge and exists to explain the uv-specific behaviors for
someone who already understands dependency resolution conceptually and
has interacted with their dependency tree before. I had a section on the
lockfile but removed it because it found the lockfile to be too
self-documenting.

I haven't touched the readme.

Closes #5603
Closes #5238
Closes #5237

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Co-authored-by: Zanie Blue <contact@zanie.dev>
2024-08-03 08:47:11 -05:00

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uv

An extremely fast Python package and project manager, written in Rust.

Shows a bar chart with benchmark results.

Shows a bar chart with benchmark results.

Installing the Trio dependencies with a warm cache.

Highlights

uv is backed by Astral, the creators of Ruff.

Getting started

Install uv with our official standalone installer:

$ curl -LsSf https://astral.sh/uv/install.sh | sh
$ powershell -c "irm https://astral.sh/uv/install.ps1 | iex"

Then, check out the first steps or read on for a brief overview.

!!! tip

uv may also be installed with pip, Homebrew, and more. See all of the methods on the
[installation page](./installation.md).

Project management

uv manages project dependencies and environments:

$ uv init example
Initialized project `example` at `/home/user/example`

$ cd example

$ uv add ruff
Creating virtualenv at: .venv
Resolved 2 packages in 170ms
   Built example @ file:///home/user/example
Prepared 2 packages in 627ms
Installed 2 packages in 1ms
 + example==0.1.0 (from file:///home/user/example)
 + ruff==0.5.4

$ uv run ruff check
All checks passed!

See the project guide to get started.

Tool management

uv executes and installs command-line tools provided by Python packages, similar to pipx.

Run a tool in an ephemeral environment with uvx:

$ uvx pycowsay 'hello world!'
Resolved 1 package in 167ms
Installed 1 package in 9ms
 + pycowsay==0.0.0.2
  """

  ------------
< hello world! >
  ------------
   \   ^__^
    \  (oo)\_______
       (__)\       )\/\
           ||----w |
           ||     ||

Install a tool with uv tool install:

$ uv tool install ruff
Resolved 1 package in 6ms
Installed 1 package in 2ms
 + ruff==0.5.4
Installed 1 executable: ruff

$ ruff --version
ruff 0.5.4

See the tools guide to get started.

Python management

uv installs Python and allows quickly switching between versions.

Install multiple Python versions:

$ uv python install 3.10 3.11 3.12
Searching for Python versions matching: Python 3.10
Searching for Python versions matching: Python 3.11
Searching for Python versions matching: Python 3.12
Installed 3 versions in 3.42s
 + cpython-3.10.14-macos-aarch64-none
 + cpython-3.11.9-macos-aarch64-none
 + cpython-3.12.4-macos-aarch64-none

Download Python versions as needed:

$ uv venv --python 3.12.0
Using Python 3.12.0
Creating virtualenv at: .venv
Activate with: source .venv/bin/activate

$ uv run --python pypy@3.8 -- python --version
Python 3.8.16 (a9dbdca6fc3286b0addd2240f11d97d8e8de187a, Dec 29 2022, 11:45:30)
[PyPy 7.3.11 with GCC Apple LLVM 13.1.6 (clang-1316.0.21.2.5)] on darwin
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>>>

Use a specific Python version in the current directory:

$ uv python pin pypy@3.11
Pinned `.python-version` to `pypy@3.11`

See the installing Python guide to get started.

The pip interface

uv provides a drop-in replacement for common pip, pip-tools, and virtualenv commands. uv extends their interfaces with advanced features, such as dependency version overrides, platform-independent resolutions, reproducible resolutions, alternative resolution strategies, and more.

Compile requirements into a platform-independent requirements file:

$ uv pip compile docs/requirements.in \
   --universal \
   --output-file docs/requirements.txt
Resolved 43 packages in 12ms

Create a virtual environment:

$ uv venv
Using Python 3.12.3
Creating virtualenv at: .venv
Activate with: source .venv/bin/activate

Install the locked requirements:

$ uv pip sync docs/requirements.txt
Resolved 43 packages in 11ms
Installed 43 packages in 208ms
 + babel==2.15.0
 + black==24.4.2
 + certifi==2024.7.4
 ...

See the pip interface documentation to get started.

Next steps

See the first steps or jump straight to the guides to start using uv.