[gigatexal]

Really what is the headache with virtual environments? They’ve been solved. Use UV or python’s built in venv creator and you’re good to go.

uv venv —seed —python=3.12 && source .venv/bin/activate && pip3 install requests && …

[dheera]

That's messy.

I should be able to do "python foo.py" and everything should just work. foo.py should define what it wants and python should fetch it and provide it to foo. I should be able to do "pyc foo.py; ./foo" and everything should just work, dependencies balled up and statically included like Rust or Go. Even NodeJS can turn an entire project into one file to execute. That's what a modern language should look and work like.

The moment I see "--this --that" just to run the default version of something you've lost me. This is 2025.

[gigatexal]

You mean this?

#!/usr/bin/env -S uv run --script # # /// script # requires-python = ">=3.12" # dependencies = ["httpx"] # ///

import httpx

print(httpx.get("https://example.com"))

https://docs.astral.sh/uv/guides/scripts/#improving-reproduc...

There are also projects py2exe pyinstaller iirc and others that try to get the whole static binary thing going.

You’re trying imo to make Python into Golang and if you’re wanting to do that just use Golang. That seems like a far better use of your time.