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		ndr 9 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Switching Pip to Uv in a Dockerized Flask / Django... PSA careful replacing `pip` with `uv` thinking it's a drop-in replacement. By default `uv` won't generate `pyc` files which might make your service much slower to start. See https://docs.astral.sh/uv/reference/settings/#pip_compile-by...

elyall 9 months ago [–]

uv's guide for use in containers is a better reference for this: https://docs.astral.sh/uv/guides/integration/docker/#compili...

ndr 9 months ago | [–]

Agreed if you're going there from the start.

I stumbled on this by porting something using that was previously pip, and that surprisingly different default has been a foot gun.

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