Updating to uv from pip

This is a short guide on how to upgrade a project from using pip with a requirements.txt file to using Astral's uv. It assumes that uv is already installed and that you have a project set up with a requirements.txt file.

Initialize uv:

uv init

Remove hello.py.

rm hello.py

Modify project.toml to update the information about the project.

Add the dependencies from requirements.txt to the project.toml file:

uv add -r requirements.txt

That's it! You can now use uv to manage your dependencies. You can run the project with:

uv run your_script.py

Alternatively, you can use uv sync to manually update the environment then activate it before executing a command:

uv sync
source .venv/bin/activate
python your_script.py

To add new dependencies, you can use the uv add command:

uv add package_name

To upgrade a package, you can use the uv upgrade command:

uv lock --upgrade-package package_name