> NOTE: The PRs that were merged into this feature branch have all been
independently reviewed. But it's also useful to see all of the changes
in their final form. I've added comments to significant changes
throughout the PR to aid discussion.
This PR introduces transparent Python version upgrades to uv, allowing
for a smoother experience when upgrading to new patch versions.
Previously, upgrading Python patch versions required manual updates to
each virtual environment. Now, virtual environments can transparently
upgrade to newer patch versions.
Due to significant changes in how uv installs and executes managed
Python executables, this functionality is initially available behind a
`--preview` flag. Once an installation has been made upgradeable through
`--preview`, subsequent operations (like `uv venv -p 3.10` or patch
upgrades) will work without requiring the flag again. This is
accomplished by checking for the existence of a minor version symlink
directory (or junction on Windows).
### Features
* New `uv python upgrade` command to upgrade installed Python versions
to the latest available patch release:
```
# Upgrade specific minor version
uv python upgrade 3.12 --preview
# Upgrade all installed minor versions
uv python upgrade --preview
```
* Transparent upgrades also occur when installing newer patch versions:
```
uv python install 3.10.8 --preview
# Automatically upgrades existing 3.10 environments
uv python install 3.10.18
```
* Support for transparently upgradeable Python `bin` installations via
`--preview` flag
```
uv python install 3.13 --preview
# Automatically upgrades the `bin` installation if there is a newer patch version available
uv python upgrade 3.13 --preview
```
* Virtual environments can still be tied to a patch version if desired
(ignoring patch upgrades):
```
uv venv -p 3.10.8
```
### Implementation
Transparent upgrades are implemented using:
* Minor version symlink directories (Unix) or junctions (Windows)
* On Windows, trampolines simulate paths with junctions
* Symlink directory naming follows Python build standalone format: e.g.,
`cpython-3.10-macos-aarch64-none`
* Upgrades are scoped to the minor version key (as represented in the
naming format: implementation-minor version+variant-os-arch-libc)
* If the context does not provide a patch version request and the
interpreter is from a managed CPython installation, the `Interpreter`
used by `uv python run` will use the full symlink directory executable
path when available, enabling transparently upgradeable environments
created with the `venv` module (`uv run python -m venv`)
New types:
* `PythonMinorVersionLink`: in a sense, the core type for this PR, this
is a representation of a minor version symlink directory (or junction on
Windows) that points to the highest installed managed CPython patch
version for a minor version key.
* `PythonInstallationMinorVersionKey`: provides a view into a
`PythonInstallationKey` that excludes the patch and prerelease. This is
used for grouping installations by minor version key (e.g., to find the
highest available patch installation for that minor version key) and for
minor version directory naming.
### Compatibility
* Supports virtual environments created with:
* `uv venv`
* `uv run python -m venv` (using managed Python that was installed or
upgraded with `--preview`)
* Virtual environments created within these environments
* Existing virtual environments from before these changes continue to
work but aren't transparently upgradeable without being recreated
* Supports both standard Python (`python3.10`) and freethreaded Python
(`python3.10t`)
* Support for transparently upgrades is currently only available for
managed CPython installations
Closes#7287Closes#7325Closes#7892Closes#9031Closes#12977
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Currently, for users to specify at the command line whether to use
uv-managed or system Python interpreters, they use the
`--python-preference` parameter, which takes four possible values. This
is more complex than necessary since the normal case is to either say
"only managed" or "not managed". This PR hides the old
`--python-preference` parameter from help and documentation and adds two
new flags: `--managed-python` and `--no-managed-python` to capture the
"only managed" and "not managed" cases.
I have successfully tested this locally but currently cannot add
snapshot tests because of problems with distinguishing managed vs.
system interpreters in CI (and non-determinism when run on different
developers' machines). The `--python-preference` test in
`tool-install.rs` is currently ignored for this reason. See #5144 and
#7473.
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## Summary
When going through the docs at
https://docs.astral.sh/uv/guides/install-python/#automatic-python-downloads,
when you try to copy and paste the example on Windows, in either
PowerShell or cmd.exe the example won't work.
Inverting the quotes fixes it, and still works on other shells (I only
tried bash under wsl)
## Test Plan
On any windows system, from powershell, running the example yields the
following error:
```
> uv run --python 3.12 python -c 'print("hello world")'
File "<string>", line 1
print(hello world)
^^^^^^^^^^^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax. Perhaps you forgot a comma?
```
on cmd.exe
```
> uv run --python 3.12 python -c 'print("hello world")'
```
(there is no output)
Inverting the quotes on powershell
```
> uv run --python 3.12 python -c "print('hello world')"
hello world
```
on cmd.exe
```
> uv run --python 3.12 python -c "print('hello world')"
hello world
```
<!-- How was it tested? -->
## Summary
`mkdocs` supports [validation rules for
links](https://www.mkdocs.org/user-guide/configuration/#validation),
which can be tightened to report more issues than the default
configuration. I used the recommended "maximal strictness" configuration
from the documentation.
Adding the `anchors` rule helped spot 4 errors:
```console
WARNING - Doc file 'guides/install-python.md' contains a link '../concepts/python-versions.md#python-distributions', but the doc 'concepts/python-versions.md' does not contain an anchor '#python-distributions'.
WARNING - Doc file 'guides/install-python.md' contains a link '../concepts/python-versions.md#discovery-order', but the doc 'concepts/python-versions.md' does not contain an anchor '#discovery-order'.
WARNING - Doc file 'guides/projects.md' contains a link '../concepts/projects.md#lock-file', but the doc 'concepts/projects.md' does not contain an anchor '#lock-file'.
WARNING - Doc file 'pip/environments.md' contains a link '../concepts/python-versions.md#discovery-order', but the doc 'concepts/python-versions.md' does not contain an anchor '#discovery-order'.
```
## Test Plan
Local run of the documentation + `mkdocs build --strict`.
To enforce the 100 character line limit in markdown files introduced in
https://github.com/astral-sh/uv/pull/5635, and to automate the
formatting of markdown files, i've added prettier and formatted our
markdown files with it.
I've excluded the changelog and the generated references documentation
from this for having too many changes, but we can also include them.
I'm not particular on which style we use. My main motivations are
(major) not having to reflow markdown files myself anymore and (minor)
consistence between all markdown files. I've chosen prettier for similar
reason as we chose black, it's a single good style that's automated and
shared in the community. I do prefer prettier's style of not breaking
inside of a link name though.
This PR is in two parts, the first adds prettier to CI and documents
using it, while the second actually formats the docs. When merge
conflicts arise, we can drop the last commit and regenerate it with `npx
prettier --prose-wrap always --write BENCHMARKS.md CONTRIBUTING.md
README.md STYLE.md docs/*.md docs/concepts/**/*.md docs/guides/**/*.md
docs/pip/**/*.md`.
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## Summary
We want to have consistency between the Ruff and uv documentation for
the upcoming release. We don't love the Ruff docs, but we'd rather have
consistency and then work towards improving them both, rather than have
two very-different documentation sites that both have weaknesses.
The setup here is simpler than in Ruff as: (1) we don't yet generate any
docs from Rust and (2) we don't try to reuse the README in the uv
documentation (which adds a lot of complexity in Ruff). So the change
here is mostly a 1-to-1 port to MkDocs.
## Test Plan
Moving the preview features to top-level concepts and pushing the
pip-compatible interface down.
e.g.
<img width="291" alt="Screenshot 2024-06-27 at 7 03 48 AM"
src="500ad97d-899d-4051-b59d-e74786b3a45f">
