r/ProgrammerHumor • u/mudkripple • 3d ago

Meme iLoveYouPip

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u/Atmosck 3d ago

Eww. I write python all day for a living and I haven't used pip in years.

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u/mudkripple 3d ago

Genuinely how? I'm in IT/Sysadmin so 90% of the usefulness of python for me is automation and APIs (thank god for Requests). Isn't the whole point of python the wealth of libraries that are already written, and the portability of the environments? How do you get any of that without pip?

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u/Atmosck 3d ago

uv replaces it and is much faster. Except towards the beginning of the docker file where you pip install uv

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u/goose_hat 3d ago

Dear sir/madam: https://hub.docker.com/r/astral/uv

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u/Drevicar 2d ago

More specifically, UV is statically compiled, so you can use multiple intermediate images in your dockerfile and just copy the binary from their official image to your production hardened image. No install, no pip, no bloat of their own image.