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		bootsmann 4 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: I'm switching to Python and actually liking it Feel like pipx walked so uv could run, it popularized the idea of abstracting the environment management away from the user.

zeppelin101 4 months ago [–]

pipx is still the best tool for standalone utility type of packages: "yt-dlp", "glances" (like htop), etc.

asa400 4 months ago | [–]

You can, however, use uv for this, e.g., `uvx yt-dlp` works like it would in pipx.

https://docs.astral.sh/uv/guides/tools/

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