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Build backend: Add direct builds to the resolver and installer (#9621)
This is like #9556, but at the level of all other builds, including the
resolver and installer. Going through PEP 517 to build a package is
slow, so when building a package with the uv build backend, we can call
into the uv build backend directly instead: No temporary virtual env, no
temp venv sync, no python subprocess calls, no uv subprocess calls.

This fast path is gated through preview. Since the uv wheel is not
available at test time, I've manually confirmed the feature by comparing
`uv venv && cargo run pip install . -v --preview --reinstall .` and `uv
venv && cargo run pip install . -v --reinstall .`. When hacking the
preview so that the python uv build backend works without the setting
the direct build also (wheel built with `maturin build --profile
profiling`), we can see the perfomance difference:

```
$ hyperfine --prepare "uv venv" --warmup 3 \
    "UV_PREVIEW=1 target/profiling/uv pip install --no-deps --reinstall scripts/packages/built-by-uv --preview" \
    "target/profiling/uv pip install --no-deps --reinstall scripts/packages/built-by-uv --find-links target/wheels/"
Benchmark 1: UV_PREVIEW=1 target/profiling/uv pip install --no-deps --reinstall scripts/packages/built-by-uv --preview
  Time (mean ± σ):      33.1 ms ±   2.5 ms    [User: 25.7 ms, System: 13.0 ms]
  Range (min … max):    29.8 ms …  47.3 ms    73 runs
 
Benchmark 2: target/profiling/uv pip install --no-deps --reinstall scripts/packages/built-by-uv --find-links target/wheels/
  Time (mean ± σ):     115.1 ms ±   4.3 ms    [User: 54.0 ms, System: 27.0 ms]
  Range (min … max):   109.2 ms … 123.8 ms    25 runs
 
Summary
  UV_PREVIEW=1 target/profiling/uv pip install --no-deps --reinstall scripts/packages/built-by-uv --preview ran
    3.48 ± 0.29 times faster than target/profiling/uv pip install --no-deps --reinstall scripts/packages/built-by-uv --find-links target/wheels/
```

Do we need a global option to disable the fast path? There is one for
`uv build` because `--force-pep517` moves `uv build` much closer to a
`pip install` from source that a user of a library would experience (See
discussion at #9610), but uv overall doesn't really make guarantees
around the build env of dependencies, so I consider the direct build a
valid option.

Best reviewed commit-by-commit, only the last commit is the actual
implementation, while the preview mode introduction is just a
refactoring touching too many files.
2024-12-04 15:57:18 +00:00
.cargo Don't build uv-dev by default (#6827) 2024-08-29 15:44:13 -04:00
.config Abort tests running for more than 60s to catch deadlocks (#3694) 2024-05-21 13:19:57 +00:00
.github Fix FreeBSD test by avoiding expensive copy of the uv binary (#9628) 2024-12-04 05:33:10 +00:00
assets Add top-level benchmark to the README (#2622) 2024-03-22 16:07:31 -04:00
crates Build backend: Add direct builds to the resolver and installer (#9621) 2024-12-04 15:57:18 +00:00
docs feat: add environment variable to disable writing installer metadata files (#8877) 2024-12-04 01:29:33 +00:00
ecosystem Replace pretix ecosystem test with saleor (#7567) 2024-09-19 21:20:44 -04:00
python/uv Check `python/uv/` folder with `mypy` (#7891) 2024-10-03 13:05:01 +01:00
scripts Build backend: Add integration test for scripts (#9635) 2024-12-04 10:57:08 +00:00
.editorconfig Ignore `UV_CACHE_DIR` in `help` tests (#7895) 2024-10-04 09:41:25 -05:00
.gitattributes Add JSON Schema support (#3046) 2024-04-17 17:24:41 +00:00
.gitignore ignore macOS .DS_Store files (#7200) 2024-09-08 21:29:18 +00:00
.pre-commit-config.yaml Update pre-commit dependencies (#9565) 2024-12-01 20:06:53 -05:00
.prettierignore Generate environment variables doc from code (#8493) 2024-11-03 08:31:38 -06:00
.python-versions Use 3.13 in CI (#8014) 2024-11-07 14:29:54 -06:00
BENCHMARKS.md Update `BENCHMARKS.md` (#6258) 2024-08-20 16:42:57 +00:00
CHANGELOG.md Bump version to 0.5.6 (#9612) 2024-12-03 14:13:06 -06:00
CONTRIBUTING.md Increase UV_STACK_SIZE to 3MB (#9311) 2024-11-21 11:46:33 +00:00
Cargo.lock Build backend: Add direct builds to the resolver and installer (#9621) 2024-12-04 15:57:18 +00:00
Cargo.toml Improve message when updater receipt is for a different uv executable (#9487) 2024-12-04 01:26:32 +00:00
Dockerfile Docker: put uv and uvx in a single layer (#7697) 2024-09-26 09:19:14 -05:00
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LICENSE-MIT Add README and LICENSE files 2023-10-05 12:45:38 -04:00
PIP_COMPATIBILITY.md Move pip compatibility guide to the documentation (#6213) 2024-08-20 11:31:46 -05:00
README.md Bump version to 0.5.6 (#9612) 2024-12-03 14:13:06 -06:00
STYLE.md Improve and fix some documents (#8749) 2024-11-01 09:44:04 -04:00
_typos.toml uv/tests: add new 'ecosystem' integration tests (#5970) 2024-08-13 09:48:00 -04:00
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rust-toolchain.toml Revert "Upgrade to Rust 1.83 (#9511)" (#9617) 2024-12-03 19:21:05 +00:00
uv.schema.json Make `check-url` available in configuration files (#9032) 2024-12-02 17:30:12 -06:00

README.md

uv

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

Shows a bar chart with benchmark results.

Installing Trio's dependencies with a warm cache.

Highlights

uv is backed by Astral, the creators of Ruff.

Installation

Install uv with our standalone installers:

# On macOS and Linux.
curl -LsSf https://astral.sh/uv/install.sh | sh
# On Windows.
powershell -ExecutionPolicy ByPass -c "irm https://astral.sh/uv/install.ps1 | iex"

Or, from PyPI:

# With pip.
pip install uv
# Or pipx.
pipx install uv

If installed via the standalone installer, uv can update itself to the latest version:

uv self update

See the installation documentation for details and alternative installation methods.

Documentation

uv's documentation is available at docs.astral.sh/uv.

Additionally, the command line reference documentation can be viewed with uv help.

Features

Project management

uv manages project dependencies and environments, with support for lockfiles, workspaces, and more, similar to rye or poetry:

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

$ cd example

$ uv add ruff
Creating virtual environment 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==0.5.6

$ uv run ruff check
All checks passed!

See the project documentation to get started.

uv also supports building and publishing projects, even if they're not managed with uv. See the publish guide to learn more.

Tool management

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

Run a tool in an ephemeral environment using uvx (an alias for uv tool run):

$ 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==0.5.6
Installed 1 executable: ruff

$ ruff --version
ruff 0.5.6

See the tools documentation 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 virtual environment 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 Python installation documentation to get started.

Script support

uv manages dependencies and environments for single-file scripts.

Create a new script and add inline metadata declaring its dependencies:

$ echo 'import requests; print(requests.get("https://astral.sh"))' > example.py

$ uv add --script example.py requests
Updated `example.py`

Then, run the script in an isolated virtual environment:

$ uv run example.py
Reading inline script metadata from: example.py
Installed 5 packages in 12ms
<Response [200]>

See the scripts documentation to get started.

A pip-compatible 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.

Migrate to uv without changing your existing workflows — and experience a 10-100x speedup — with the uv pip interface.

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 virtual environment 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.

Platform support

See uv's platform support document.

Versioning policy

See uv's versioning policy document.

Contributing

We are passionate about supporting contributors of all levels of experience and would love to see you get involved in the project. See the contributing guide to get started.

Acknowledgements

uv's dependency resolver uses PubGrub under the hood. We're grateful to the PubGrub maintainers, especially Jacob Finkelman, for their support.

uv's Git implementation is based on Cargo.

Some of uv's optimizations are inspired by the great work we've seen in pnpm, Orogene, and Bun. We've also learned a lot from Nathaniel J. Smith's Posy and adapted its trampoline for Windows support.

License

uv is licensed under either of

at your option.

Unless you explicitly state otherwise, any contribution intentionally submitted for inclusion in uv by you, as defined in the Apache-2.0 license, shall be dually licensed as above, without any additional terms or conditions.