Python tools run with `python -m <tool>` will use this `python` as their default python, including pip, virtualenv and the built-in venv. Calling Python tools this way is common, the [pip docs](https://pip.pypa.io/en/stable/user_guide/) use `python -m pip` exclusively, the built-in venv can only be called this way and certain project layouts require `python -m pytest` over `pytest`. This python interpreter takes precedence over the currently active (v)env.
These tools are all written in python and read `sys.executable`. To emulate this, we're setting `UV_DEFAULT_PYTHON` in the python module-launcher shim and read it in the default python discovery, prioritizing it over the active venv. User can also set `UV_DEFAULT_PYTHON` for their own purposes.
The test covers only half of the feature since we don't build the python package before running the tests.
Fixes#2058Fixes#2222
The architecture of uv does not necessarily match that of the python
interpreter (#2326). In cross compiling/testing scenarios the operating
system can also mismatch. To solve this, we move arch and os detection
to python, vendoring the relevant pypa/packaging code, preventing
mismatches between what the python interpreter was compiled for and what
uv was compiled for.
To make the scripts more manageable, they are now a directory in a
tempdir and we run them with `python -m` . I've simplified the
pypa/packaging code since we're still building the tags in rust. A
`Platform` is now instantiated by querying the python interpreter for
its platform. The pypa/packaging files are copied verbatim for easier
updates except a `lru_cache()` python 3.7 backport.
Error handling is done by a `"result": "success|error"` field that allow
passing error details to rust:
```console
$ uv venv --no-cache
× Can't use Python at `/home/konsti/projects/uv/.venv/bin/python3`
╰─▶ Unknown operation system `linux`
```
I've used the [maturin sysconfig
collection](855f6d2cb1/sysconfig)
as reference. I'm unsure how to test these changes across the wide
variety of platforms.
Fixes#2326
## Summary
Per [PEP 508](https://peps.python.org/pep-0508/), `python_version` is
just major and minor:
Right now, we're using the provided version directly, so if it's, e.g.,
`-p 3.11.8`, we'll inject the wrong marker. This was causing `pandas` to
omit `numpy` when `-p 3.11.8` was provided, since its markers look like:
```
Requires-Dist: numpy<2,>=1.22.4; python_version < "3.11"
Requires-Dist: numpy<2,>=1.23.2; python_version == "3.11"
Requires-Dist: numpy<2,>=1.26.0; python_version >= "3.12"
```
Closes https://github.com/astral-sh/uv/issues/2392.
Behind error messages, the debug log is the second most important
resource to finding out what and why went wrong when there was a problem
with uv. It is important to see which paths it has found and how the
decisions in the resolver were made. I'm trying to improve the
experience interacting with the debug log.
The hierarchical layer is verbose and hard to follow, so it's moved to
the `-vv` extra verbose setting, while `-v` works like
`RUST_LOG=uv=debug`.
For installing jupyter with a warm cache:
* Default:
https://gist.github.com/konstin/4de6e466127311c5a5fc2f99c56a8e11
* `-v`: https://gist.github.com/konstin/e7bafe0ec7d07e47ba98a3865ae2ef3e
* `-vv`:
https://gist.github.com/konstin/3ee1aaff37f91cceb6275dd5525f180e
Ideally, we would have `-v`, `-vv` and `-vvv`, but we're lacking the the
`info!` layer for `-v`, so there's only two layers for now.
The `tracing_subcriber` formatter always print the current span, so i
replaced it with a custom formatter.
Best read commit-by-commit.
Preparing for #2058, i found it hard to follow where which discovery
function gets called. I moved all the discovery functions to a
`find_python` module (some exposed through `PythonEnvironment`) and
documented which subcommand uses which python discovery strategy.
No functional changes.
## Summary
It turns out that setuptools includes a shim to patch distutils. I'll
admit that I don't fully understand why or how it's different, but this
is the trick `pip` uses to ensure that it gets the "original" distutils.
We actually use distutils in two places: once for the system Python
scheme, and once for virtual environments. In virtualenv, they _do_ use
the patched distutils, so this could deviate in ways I don't understand.
Closes#2302.
## Summary
This PR enables use of the Windows Store Pythons even with `py` is not
installed. Specifically, we need to ensure that the `python.exe` and
`python3.exe` executables installed into the
`C:\Users\crmar\AppData\Local\Microsoft\WindowsApp` directory _are_ used
when they're not "App execution aliases" (which merely open the Windows
Store, to help you install Python).
When `py` is installed, this isn't strictly necessary, since the
"resolved" executables are discovered via `py`. These look like
`C:\Users\crmar\AppData\Local\Microsoft\WindowsApps\PythonSoftwareFoundation.Python.3.11_qbs5n2kfra8p0\python.exe`.
Closes https://github.com/astral-sh/uv/issues/2264.
## Test Plan
- Removed all Python installations from my Windows machine.
- Uninstalled `py`.
- Enabled "App execution aliases".
- Verified that for both `cargo run venv --python python.exe` and `cargo
run venv --python python3.exe`, `uv` exited with a failure that no
Python could be found.
- Installed Python 3.10 via the Windows Store.
- Verified that the above commands succeeded without error.
- Verified that `cargo run venv --python python3.10.exe` _also_
succeeded.
## Summary
In #2102, I did some refactor, and changed a method to return the Python
executable path rather than the parent directory path. But I missed this
one codepath for Conda on Windows.
Closes https://github.com/astral-sh/uv/issues/2269.
## Test Plan
- Installed micromamba on my Windows machine.
- Reproduced the failure in the linked issue.
- Verified that `python.exe` exists at `${CONDA_PREFIX}\python.exe`.
- Ran with this change; installed successfully.
## Summary
This PR adds support for pip's `--no-build-isolation`. When enabled,
build requirements won't be installed during PEP 517-style builds, but
the source environment _will_ be used when executing the build steps
themselves.
Closes https://github.com/astral-sh/uv/issues/1715.
`uv pip install mysqlclient==2.1.1` on python 3.12 on windows, where the
are no binary wheels:
Part of #2052.
## Summary
`pip` uses `sysconfig` for Python 3.10 and later by default; however, it
falls back to `distutils` for earlier Python versions, and distros can
actually tell `pip` to continue falling back to `distutils` via the
`_PIP_USE_SYSCONFIG` variable.
By _always_ using `sysconfig`, we're doing the wrong then when
installing into some system Pythons, e.g., on Debian prior to Python
3.10.
This PR modifies our logic to mirror `pip` exactly, which is what's been
recommended to me as the right thing to do.
Closes https://github.com/astral-sh/uv/issues/2113.
## Test Plan
Most notably, the new Debian tests pass here (which fail on main:
https://github.com/astral-sh/uv/pull/2144).
I also added Pyston as a second stress-test.
## Summary
This PR migrates our virtualenv creation from a setup that assumes prior
knowledge of the correct paths, to a technique borrowed from
`virtualenv` whereby we use `sysconfig` and `distutils` to determine the
paths. The general trick is to grab the expected paths with `sysconfig`,
then make them all relative, then make them absolute for a given
directory.
Closes#2095.
Closes#2153.
## Summary
This makes `--python python3` and `--python 3.10` more consistent on
Windows.
Closes https://github.com/astral-sh/uv/issues/2213.
## Test Plan
Ran `cargo run venv --python python3.12` with the Windows Store Python.
## Summary
We have logic in `python_query.rs` to filter out Windows Store shims
when you use invocations like `-p 3.10`, but not `--python python3`,
which is uncommon but allowed on Windows.
Closes#2211.
## Summary
Our Windows shim detection wasn't catching shims like `python3.12.exe`.
Closes#2208.
## Test Plan
Installed Python 3.12 via the Windows Store; verified that `cargo run
venv --python 3.12` failed before but passes after this change.
## Summary
This will make it easier to use the paths returned by `distutils.py`
(for some cases). No code or behavior changes; just removing some fields
we don't need.
## Summary
After https://github.com/astral-sh/uv/pull/2121, the only remaining
issue is that calling `canonicalize` on these Pythons returns an error.
Closes https://github.com/astral-sh/uv/issues/2105.
## Test Plan
Uninstalled all python.org Pythons on my Windows machine, then created a
virtualenv. The resulting config file:
```
Using Python 3.11.8 interpreter at: C:\Users\crmar\AppData\Local\Microsoft\WindowsApps\PythonSoftwareFoundation.Python.3.11_qbz5n2kfra8p0\python.exe
Creating virtualenv at: .venv
Activate with: .venv\Scripts\activate
PS C:\Users\crmar\workspace\puffin> cat .\.venv\pyvenv.cfg
home = C:\Users\crmar\AppData\Local\Microsoft\WindowsApps\PythonSoftwareFoundation.Python.3.11_qbz5n2kfra8p0
implementation = CPython
version_info = 3.11.8
include-system-site-packages = false
uv = 0.1.13
prompt = puffin
```
Prior to this PR, it would fail with a canonicalization error.
Prior to #2121, it would leave a "bad" Python in the config file:
```
Using Python 3.11.8 interpreter at: C:\Users\crmar\AppData\Local\Microsoft\WindowsApps\PythonSoftwareFoundation.Python.3.11_qbz5n2kfra8p0\python.exe
Creating virtualenv at: .venv
Activate with: .venv\Scripts\activate
PS C:\Users\crmar\workspace\puffin> cat .\.venv\pyvenv.cfg
home = C:\Program Files\WindowsApps\PythonSoftwareFoundation.Python.3.11_3.11.2288.0_x64__qbz5n2kfra8p0
implementation = CPython
version_info = 3.11.8
include-system-site-packages = false
uv = 0.1.13
prompt = puffin
```
Which, once activated, would fail with:
```
(venv) PS C:\Users\crmar\workspace\puffin> python
No Python at '"C:\Users\crmar\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python312\python.exe'
```
## Summary
When I install via the Windows Store, `interpreter.base_prefix` contains
a bunch of resolved information that leads to a broken environment.
Instead, we now use `sys._base_executable` on Windows by default,
falling back to `sys.base_prefix` if it doesn't exist. (There are some
issues with `sys.base_executable` that lead to complexity in
`virtualenv`, but they only affect POSIX.) Admittedly, I don't know when
`sys._base_executable` wouldn't exist. It exists in all the environments
I've tested.
Additionally, we use the system interpreter directly if we're outside of
a virtualenv.
## Summary
Right now, we have virtualenv construction encoded in a few different
places. Namely, it happens in both `gourgeist` and
`virtualenv_layout.rs` -- _and_ `interpreter.rs` also encodes some
knowledge about how they work, by way of reconstructing the
`SysconfigPaths`.
Instead, `gourgeist` now returns the complete layout, enumerating all
the directories it created. So, rather than returning a root directory,
and re-creating all those paths in `uv-interpreter`, we pass the data
directly back to it.
## Summary
This is based on Pradyun's installer branch
(d01624e5f2/src/installer/scripts.py (L54)),
which is itself based on pip
(0ad4c94be7/src/pip/_vendor/distlib/scripts.py (L136)).
The gist of it is: on Posix platforms, if a path contains a space (or is
too long), we wrap the shebang in a `/bin/sh` invocation.
Closes https://github.com/astral-sh/uv/issues/2076.
## Test Plan
```
❯ cargo run venv "foo"
Finished dev [unoptimized + debuginfo] target(s) in 0.14s
Running `target/debug/uv venv foo`
Using Python 3.12.0 interpreter at: /Users/crmarsh/.local/share/rtx/installs/python/3.12.0/bin/python3
Creating virtualenv at: foo
Activate with: source foo/bin/activate
❯ source "foo bar/bin/activate"
❯ which black
black not found
❯ cargo run pip install black
Resolved 6 packages in 177ms
Installed 6 packages in 17ms
+ black==24.2.0
+ click==8.1.7
+ mypy-extensions==1.0.0
+ packaging==23.2
+ pathspec==0.12.1
+ platformdirs==4.2.0
❯ which black
/Users/crmarsh/workspace/uv/foo bar/bin/black
❯ black
Usage: black [OPTIONS] SRC ...
One of 'SRC' or 'code' is required.
❯ cat "foo bar/bin/black"
#!/bin/sh
'''exec' '/Users/crmarsh/workspace/uv/foo bar/bin/python' "$0" "$@"
' '''
# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
import re
import sys
from black import patched_main
if __name__ == "__main__":
sys.argv[0] = re.sub(r"(-script\.pyw|\.exe)?$", "", sys.argv[0])
sys.exit(patched_main())
```
I'm not at all sure whether this is a correct fix or not, but it does
seem to make `pypy` work in at least some cases with `uv`. Previously,
I couldn't get it to work at all. Namely the virtualenv was created
with a `lib/python3.10/site-packages`, but whenever I did a `uv
pip install` in that virtualenv, it was looking for a non-existent
`lib/pypy3.10/site-packages` directory.
With this PR, the workflow reported as not working in #1488 now works
for me:
```
$ pypy3 --version
Python 3.10.13 (fc59e61cfbff, Jan 17 2024, 05:35:45)
[PyPy 7.3.15 with GCC 13.2.1 20230801]
$ uv venv --python $(which pypy3) --seed
Using Python 3.10.13 interpreter at: /usr/bin/pypy3
Creating virtualenv at: .venv
+ pip==24.0
+ setuptools==69.1.1
+ wheel==0.42.0
Activate with: source .venv/bin/activate
$ uv pip install 'alembic==1.0.11'
Resolved 9 packages in 8ms
Installed 9 packages in 14ms
+ alembic==1.0.11
+ greenlet==3.0.3
+ mako==1.3.2
+ markupsafe==2.1.5
+ python-dateutil==2.8.2
+ python-editor==1.0.4
+ six==1.16.0
+ sqlalchemy==2.0.27
+ typing-extensions==4.10.0
```
Where as previously (current `main`), I was hitting this error:
```
$ uv venv --python $(which pypy3) --seed
Using Python 3.10.13 interpreter at: /usr/bin/pypy3
Creating virtualenv at: .venv
+ pip==24.0
+ setuptools==69.1.1
+ wheel==0.42.0
Activate with: source .venv/bin/activate
$ uv pip install 'alembic==1.0.11'
error: Failed to list installed packages
Caused by: failed to read directory `/home/andrew/astral/issues/uv/i1488/.venv/lib/pypy3.10/site-packages`
Caused by: No such file or directory (os error 2)
```
Notice though that neither outcome above matches the error reported in #1488,
so this is likely not a complete fix. There are perhaps other lurking
issues.
Ref #1488
`uv --system` is failing in GitHub Actions, because `py --list-paths`
returns all the pre-cached Pythons:
```
-V:3.12 * C:\hostedtoolcache\windows\Python\3.12.2\x64\python.exe
-V:3.12-32 C:\hostedtoolcache\windows\Python\3.12.2\x86\python.exe
-V:3.11 C:\hostedtoolcache\windows\Python\3.11.8\x64\python.exe
-V:3.11-32 C:\hostedtoolcache\windows\Python\3.11.8\x86\python.exe
-V:3.10 C:\hostedtoolcache\windows\Python\3.10.11\x64\python.exe
-V:3.10-32 C:\hostedtoolcache\windows\Python\3.10.11\x86\python.exe
-V:3.9 C:\hostedtoolcache\windows\Python\3.9.13\x64\python.exe
-V:3.9-32 C:\hostedtoolcache\windows\Python\3.9.13\x86\python.exe
-V:3.8 C:\hostedtoolcache\windows\Python\3.8.10\x64\python.exe
-V:3.8-32 C:\hostedtoolcache\windows\Python\3.8.10\x86\python.exe
-V:3.7 C:\hostedtoolcache\windows\Python\3.7.9\x64\python.exe
-V:3.7-32 C:\hostedtoolcache\windows\Python\3.7.9\x86\python.exe
```
So, our default selector returns the first entry here. But none of these
are actually in `PATH` except the one that the user installed via
`actions/setup-python@v5` -- that's the point of the action, that it
puts the correct versions in `PATH`.
It seems to me like we should prioritize `PATH` over `py --list-paths`.
Is there a good reason not to do this?
Closes: https://github.com/astral-sh/uv/issues/2056
## Summary
This is still imperfect, since the INI parser seems to strip empty
lines, but at least the content is preserved.
Closes https://github.com/astral-sh/uv/issues/2061.
## Test Plan
## Summary
We shouldn't be resolving symlinks on the provided interpreter;
otherwise we break `pyenv`, since running `cargo run pip install mypy
--python .venv/bin/python` will immediately resolve to (e.g.)
`/Users/crmarsh/.pyenv/versions/3.10.2/bin/python3.10`, and pyenv relies
on the path to do its lookups.
Instead, the canonicalizing happens when we query the interpreter
metadata.
Closes https://github.com/astral-sh/uv/issues/2068.
## Test Plan
Ran `cargo run pip install mypy --python .venv/bin/python -v -n` with a
virtualenv created using a pyenv Python; verified that Mypy was
installed into the virtual environment, rather than into the global
environment.
## Summary
`PythonPlatform` only exists to format paths to directories within
virtual environments based on a root and an OS, so it's now
`VirtualenvLayout`.
`Virtualenv` is now used for non-virtual environment Pythons, so it's
now `PythonEnvironment`.
## Summary
Now that we have the ability to introspect the installed packages for
arbitrary Pythons, we can allow `pip freeze` and `pip list` to fall back
to the "default" Python, if no virtualenv is present.
Closes https://github.com/astral-sh/uv/issues/2005.
## Summary
This PR aligns the `uv pip install --python` flag with the `uv venv
--python` flag, such that the former now accepts binary names and Python
versions by way of using the same `find_requested_python` method under
the hood.
## Summary
This PR adds a `--python` flag that allows users to provide a specific
Python interpreter into which `uv` should install packages. This would
replace the `VIRTUAL_ENV=` workaround that folks have been using to
install into arbitrary, system environments, while _also_ actually being
correct for installing into non-virtual environments, where the bin and
site-packages paths can differ.
The approach taken here is to use `sysconfig.get_paths()` to get the
correct paths from the interpreter, and then use those for determining
the `bin` and `site-packages` directories, rather than constructing them
based on hard-coded expectations for each platform.
Closes https://github.com/astral-sh/uv/issues/1396.
Closes https://github.com/astral-sh/uv/issues/1779.
Closes https://github.com/astral-sh/uv/issues/1988.
## Test Plan
- Verified that, on my Windows machine, I was able to install `requests`
into a global environment with: `cargo run pip install requests --python
'C:\\Users\\crmarsh\\AppData\\Local\\Programs\\Python\\Python3.12\\python.exe`,
then `python` and `import requests`.
- Verified that, on macOS, I was able to install `requests` into a
global environment installed via Homebrew with: `cargo run pip install
requests --python $(which python3.8)`.
Address a few pedantic lints
lints are separated into separate commits so they can be reviewed
individually.
I've not added enforcement for any of these lints, but that could be
added if desirable.
Read the key read for uv from `pyenv.cfg` from `gourgeist` instead of
`uv`. I missed that we're also reading pyenv.cfg when reviewing #1852.
We could check for gourgeist for backwards compatibility, but i think
it's fine this way.
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## Summary
On Windows `10.0.19045` the `py` command prints to `stderr` even when
working correctly. This means that uv should not treat this as a
failure.
Fixes https://github.com/astral-sh/uv/issues/1904
## Test Plan
I ran the modified code and it worked. I expect the pull request to run
automated tests.
## Summary
Fixes https://github.com/astral-sh/uv/issues/1693
`uv` currently fails when a user has `python` 2 or older installed on
their system without a `python3` or `python3.exe` on their path because
the `get_interpreter_info.py` script fails executing (it uses some
Python 3+ APIs).
This PR fixes this by:
* Returning an explicit error code in `get_interpreter_info` if the
Python version isn't supported
* Skipping over this error in `python_query` if the user requested ANY
python version or a version >= 3.
* Error if the user requested a Python 2 version.
## Test Plan
Error if the user requests a legacy python version.
```
uv venv -p 2
× Python 2 or older is not supported. Please use Python 3 or newer.
```
Ignore any python 2 installation when querying newer python
installations (using v4 here because I have python3 on the path and that
takes precedence over querying python)
```
uv_interpreter::python_query::find_python selector=Major(4)
0.005541s 0ms DEBUG uv_interpreter::interpreter Detecting markers for: /home/micha/.pyenv/shims/python
0.059730s 54ms DEBUG uv_interpreter::python_query Found a Python 2 installation that isn't supported by uv, skipping.
0.059983s 54ms DEBUG uv_interpreter::interpreter Using cached markers for: /usr/bin/python
× No Python 4 In `PATH`. Is Python 4 installed?
```
(This PR message is mostly copied from the comment in the code.)
For local builds of Python, at time of writing, the version numbers end
with
a `+`. This makes the version non-PEP-440 compatible since a `+`
indicates
the start of a local segment which must be non-empty. Thus, `uv` chokes
on it
and [spits out an error][1] when trying to create a venv using a "local"
build
of Python. Arguably, the right fix for this is for [CPython to use a
PEP-440
compatible version number][2].
However, as a work-around for now, [as suggested by pradyunsg][3] as one
possible direction forward, we strip the `+`.
This fix does unfortunately mean that one [cannot specify a Python
version
constraint that specifically selects a local version][4]. But at the
time of
writing, it seems reasonable to block such functionality on this being
fixed
upstream (in some way).
Another alternative would be to treat such invalid versions as strings
(which
is what PEP-508 suggests), but this leads to undesirable behavior in
this
case. For example, let's say you have a Python constraint of `>=3.9.1`
and
a local build of Python with a version `3.11.1+`. Using string
comparisons
would mean the constraint wouldn't be satisfied:
>>> "3.9.1" < "3.11.1+"
False
So in the end, we just strip the trailing `+`, as was done in the days
of old
for [legacy version numbers][5].
I tested this fix by manually confirming that
uv venv --python local/python
failed before it and succeeded after it.
Fixes#1357
[1]: https://github.com/astral-sh/uv/issues/1357
[2]: https://github.com/python/cpython/issues/99968
[3]:
https://github.com/pypa/packaging/issues/678#issuecomment-1436033646
[4]: https://github.com/astral-sh/uv/issues/1357#issuecomment-1947645243
[5]:
085ff41692/packaging/version.py (L168-L193)
