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by rented_mule 445 days ago
It's a package manager. The job of package managers is to download code that you then run. That certainly has security implications, but that doesn't differentiate uv from pip, Poetry, Cargo, CPAN, npm, RubyGems, ...
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"uv run file.py" downloading remote dependencies was a surprise to me
Why would you use `uv run file.py` instead of `python3 file.py`? It seems to me that downloading dependencies is the point of doing that.