uv
An extremely fast Python package installer and resolver, written in Rust. (by astral-sh)
tox
Command line driven CI frontend and development task automation tool. (by tox-dev)
| uv | tox | |
|---|---|---|
| 13 | 3 | |
| 11,653 | 3,536 | |
| 17.6% | 1.2% | |
| 10.0 | 8.9 | |
| 5 days ago | 9 days ago | |
| Rust | Python | |
| Apache License 2.0 | MIT License |
The number of mentions indicates the total number of mentions that we've tracked plus the number of user suggested alternatives.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
uv
Posts with mentions or reviews of uv.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-04-11.
- uv: An fast Python package installer and resolver, written in Rust
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Trying Out Rye
It’s worth calling out that it’s still early days for Rye. The ownership recently transitioned from Armin Ronacher to the team that develops ruff (https://astral.sh). No doubt limitations exist today, but it’s going to look a lot more like cargo as they put out more releases.
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Uv saves Home Assistant 215 compute hours per month
Happy to report that this definitely isn't a paid ad. The Home Assistant team did this on their own. I helped out by building uv for some of the architectures they needed: https://github.com/astral-sh/uv/pull/2417
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Pyenv – lets you easily switch between multiple versions of Python
https://github.com/astral-sh/uv
So fast it finally made virtual environments usable for me.
- Python's pip on steroids
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This Week in Python (February 23, 2024)
uv – An extremely fast Python package installer and resolver, written in Rust
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Multi-Stage Docker Builds for Pyton Projects using uv
Charlie Marsh and the brillant guys at Astral have helped the python ecosystem a lot with ruff and now they have released a new tool: uv.
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Ask HN: How to determine company's long term dependability? (Ello, Astral)
[2] https://github.com/astral-sh/uv
- Astral – fast Python package installer and resolver written in Rust
- An fast Python package installer and resolver, written in Rust
tox
Posts with mentions or reviews of tox.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-03-25.
- Pyenv – lets you easily switch between multiple versions of Python
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Enhance Your Project Quality with These Top Python Libraries
Tox is a powerful tool in Python development, primarily used for automating and standardised testing across multiple environments. It’s part of a larger vision of easing the packaging, testing, and release process of Python software. You should consider using tox in the following scenarios if your application needs to run across different Python versions, tox can help ensure your code works consistently across all these versions; If your project has complex dependencies, tox can manage and isolate these dependencies in different environments.
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PEP 582 rejected - consensus among the community needed
Another less heavyweight solution than Docker is Tox – handy for when you need to test software with multiple different versions of Python.
What are some alternatives?
When comparing uv and tox you can also consider the following projects:
rye - a Hassle-Free Python Experience
Nox - Flexible test automation for Python
pyflow - An installation and dependency system for Python
green - Green is a clean, colorful, fast python test runner.
hatch - Modern, extensible Python project management
Selenium Wire - Extends Selenium's Python bindings to give you the ability to inspect requests made by the browser.
flower - Flower: A Friendly Federated Learning Framework
callee - Argument matchers for unittest.mock
rfcs - RFCs for changes to Rust
PyRestTest - Python Rest Testing
asdf - Extendable version manager with support for Ruby, Node.js, Elixir, Erlang & more
aiounittest - Test python asyncio-based code with ease.