cheatsheets/uv/CHEATSHEET.md

uv

Meta

name: uv
repo: https://github.com/astral-sh/uv
description: An extremely fast Python package and project manager, written in Rust.

Install

curl -LsSf https://astral.sh/uv/install.sh | sh

Update

uv self update

Usage

Python

uv python list

Virtual Environment

uv venv --seed --python 3.12

--seed will init pip, setuptools and wheel

Script

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

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

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

Tool

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