#425 If You Were a Klingon Programmer

Topics covered in this episode:

• Why aren't you using uv?
• Python Developer Tooling Handbook
• Calling all doc writers: blacken-docs
• Reinventing notebooks as reusable Python programs
• Extras
• Joke

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Michael #1: Why aren't you using uv?

• Fun conversation on X by Armin Ronacher.
• Interesting quotes from the thread
  • I get it replaces pip/pyenv, but should I also use it instead of the built in 'python -m venv .venv'?
  • But I need python installed to make python programs?
  • Because it places the venv in the project folder and I can't run executables from there due to corporate policy. Many such cases. No idea why astral doesn't address this with more urgency.
    • Sounds like a bad corporate policy :)
  • i’m too lazy to switch from pyenv and pip
  • trust issues, what if they do a bait and switch …
  • Because everyone said that about poetry and I'm not sure I'm really ready to get hurt again.
  • Masochism
  • Many times I tried a lot of similar tools and always come back to pip and pip-tools. Them are just work, why should I spend my time for something "cool" that will bring more problems?
  • I tried this week but I was expecting a "uv install requests" instead of "uv add". Switched back to pipenv.
  • we partially use it. will transition when Dependabot support is available.
• I’ll leave it with → Jared Scheel: Seeing a whole lotta Stockholm Syndrome in the replies to this question.

Brian #2: Python Developer Tooling Handb