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Uv's killer feature is making ad-hoc environments easy
In my view, neither performance nor trying to be Python-aligned is what sets uv apart. Don’t get me wrong — try switching from uv to Poetry, and you’ll quickly notice how sluggish it (poetry) feels. uv goes extra miles to adhere to PEPs, and IMHO it’s the go-to package manager for Python these days. But these aren’t the features that surprised me most.
uv goes extra miles to adhere to PEPs, and IMHO it’s the go-to package manager for Python these days. There’s one small feature I initially overlooked that truly makes uv intriguing: Run pip install pandas, potentially modifying your global environment, or Take the proper route: Create a virtual environment pip install pandas Activate the virtual environment Run python
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