Should you use uv’s managed Python in production?
The uv Python packaging tool provides fast replacements for tools like pip, and a variety of developer experience improvements.
Unlike most Python packaging tools, uv doesn’t require Python to be installed to use it.
Building on that ease of installation, one of its interesting and useful features is the ability to install Python for you.
As a developer, this is great: if you need a version of Python you don’t have installed, uv can install it for you (transparently, by default!).
Imagine for some reason you need the long-defunct Python 3.7.
You can easily install it like so:
$ python3.7
python3.7: command not found
$ uv run