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Spivak 14 days ago | parent | context | favorite | on: Fun with uv and PEP 723

Not to derail the Python speed hate train but pyenv is written in bash.

It's a tool for installing different versions of Python, it would be weird for it to assume it already had one available.

lxgr 14 days ago [–]

Oh, that might actually explain the slow line printing speed. Thank you, solves a long standing low stakes mystery for me :)

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