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pipxu installs Python applications, i.e. Python packages which have one or more executable programs, into independent isolated virtual environments on your system. Each package and it's dependencies are thus insulated from all other applications, and from the system Python. pipxu creates links to application executables in a common directory, which you have in your PATH. Packages are typically sourced from PyPI, the Python Package Index.

pipxu is a re-implementation of most of the functionality of the popular pipx tool but is much faster because it uses uv to create and install application virtual environments instead of venv and pip as used by pipx. The pipxu code has been developed completely independently of pipx and is not a fork. For compatibility and ease of migration, the provided commands have the same names as pipx. Most commands are implemented, at least for common use cases, although some command functionality, options, and output are slightly different.

This utility has been developed and tested on Linux but will likely also work on macOS. It has been briefly tested and seems to run ok on Windows. The latest documentation and code is available at https://github.com/bulletmark/pipxu.

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