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zahlmanlast Tuesday at 3:05 PM2 repliesview on HN

> you might find someone saying to use uv, but also potentially venv, poetry or hatch.

This is sort of like saying "You might find someone saying to drive a Ford, but also potentially internal combustion engine, Nissan or Hyundai".


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evilducklast Tuesday at 3:12 PM

Only to those already steeped in Python. To an outsider they're all equally arbitrary non-descriptive words and there's not even obvious proper noun capitalization to tell apart a component from a tool brand.

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fwiplast Tuesday at 6:06 PM

I imagine by this they meant `python -m venv` specifically, using that interface directly, rather than through another wrapper CLI tool.

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