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by chippiewill 448 days ago
There's a few things:

- uv won't necessarily know which modules aren't already present, because they can load from modules being developed in the current directory

- It's not easy to determine what imports will happen in a Python script due to transitive dependencies and dynamic loading

- The names of python modules are not always the same as the packages that contain them - for example the yaml module comes from the pyyaml package

Also the second line of the Zen of Python is "explicit is better than implicit": https://peps.python.org/pep-0020/

1 comments

- It's not easy to determine what imports will happen

  fair enough, but adding option to auto import from the main file would solve 97% of use cases
- uv won't necessarily know which modules aren't already present

  easy to check
- The names of python modules are not always the same

  great opportunity to add convenient simple mapping / name resolution
- Zen

Should DRY don't repeat yourself be higher up?