uv/crates/uv-interpreter
Charlie Marsh 10175143d1
Add a --python flag to allow installation into arbitrary Python interpreters (#2000)
## 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)`.
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src Add a --python flag to allow installation into arbitrary Python interpreters (#2000) 2024-02-28 02:10:29 +00:00
Cargo.toml Add a --python flag to allow installation into arbitrary Python interpreters (#2000) 2024-02-28 02:10:29 +00:00