[alanfranz]

Shameless plug for an old approach I use for various scripts when I think bash is not enough:

https://www.franzoni.eu/single-file-editable-python-scripts-...

This doesn't require UV, just pip within the same interpreter, but I wouldn't use it for something big, and still requires deps to be updated every now and then ofc (I never tried with raw deps, I always pin dependencies).

[networked]

Oh hey, I have seen your post. Making a script download the dependencies on its own is an interesting challenge. I am a big fan of inline script metadata in Python, and I was an early adopter when pipx implemented PEP 722 (the precursor to PEP 723), but I made my version for fun.

https://pip.wtf/ was on HN not that long ago (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38383635). I had my own take on it that used virtual environments, supported Windows, and was d a free license: https://github.com/dbohdan/pip-wtenv.

[networked]

* was under a free license