C# scripts let you reference packages in a comment at the top of the file, for example:
https://devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet/announcing-dotnet-run-...
Generally the only nontrivial scripting I ever do is associated with a larger project, so I often already have a pyproject.toml and a UV environment, and I just add the dependencies to the dev group.
It just feels strange that C# of all languages is now a better scripting tool than Python, at least out of the box. I did notice uv has exactly the feature I'm looking for, though it's obviously third-party:
https://docs.astral.sh/uv/guides/scripts/#declaring-script-d...
Is everyone just using uv now instead of pip, perhaps? Or is just another alongside pipenv, conda, poetry, etc.? (Python's not my main these days, so I'm out of the loop.)
I suspect conda still has some market share too but I've never needed it.
https://avilpage.com/2025/04/learn-python-uv-in-100-seconds....
# /// script
# dependencies = [
# "cowsay",
# ]
# ///
import cowsay
cowsay.cow("Hello World")
uv run cowscript.py
You can also add a shebang line so you can execute it directly:
#!/usr/bin/env -S uv run --script
#
# /// script
# dependencies = ["cowsay"]
# ///
import cowsay
cowsay.cow("Hello World")
chmod 755 cowscript
./cowscript # /// script
# requires-python = ">=3.11"
# dependencies = [
# "requests<3",
# "rich",
# ]
# ///
import requests
from rich.pretty import pprint
resp = requests.get("https://peps.python.org/api/peps.json")
data = resp.json()
pprint([(k, v["title"]) for k, v in data.items()][:10])The same way you handle them with bash?
Install them?
What are we talking about here?
Quick rundown for the unfamiliar:
Give it a command as a list of strings (e.g., subprocess.run(["echo", "foo"]).)
It takes a bunch of flags, but the most useful (but not immediately obvious) ones are:
check=True: Raise an error if the command fails
capture_output=True: Captures stdout/stderr on the CompletedProcess
text=True: Automatically convert the stdout/stderr bytes to strings
Would be cool if python had a pipe operator though.
The back ticks in ruby is pretty ergonomic too. Wish python had a simpler way to run commands. Kind of tedious to look up subprocess run arguments and also break things up into arrays.
zahlman•4d ago