Is there a plan to add a

uv

location specifier for the

python_bootstrap.search_path

property similar to

<PYENV>

? It would be nice for Pants to find

uv

-installed python automatically without having to manually set a dir to search in, since

uv

installs to different subdirs e.g.

.local/share/uv/python/cpython-3.10.15-macos-aarch64-none/bin/python3.10

. Currently I’m using

uv python install --preview

to install to

~/.local/bin

or asking users to set symlinks to a new dir.

No active plan that I am aware of, but I imagine it would not be complicated to add, if you’re feeling frisky 🙂

Interested in this as well. Would it be possible to develop this as a plugin? From a rapid check on the source code, it seems that

<PYENV>

is hardcoded...

I'm not sure if it is straightforward as a plugin for the reasons you mentioned. I would expect it to be possible though to write a new Python provider a-la pyenv or pbs that just looks in that one place. I think if you have

grep

-ed to that string you are probably a fair bit of the way to a PR that adds it to

main

. Let me know if I can offer more guidance.

FYI I have started a branch to add this functionality but can’t say when I’ll find the time to finish it off. Will update here when I do.