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title: "💭 PEP 723 – Inline script metadata | peps.python.org"
description: "!https://peps.python.org/pep-0723/"
date: 2024-12-24
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PEP 723 is what is inspiring all of these lazy self installing python scripts, Authored by the author of hatch and pyapp.  This is a really cool thing that uv has picked up and made python packaging just a bit easier.. maybe... dependency resolution still sucks.

!!! note

    This post is a <a href="/thoughts/" class="wikilink" data-title="Thoughts" data-description="These are generally my thoughts on a web page or some sort of url, except a rare few don&#39;t have a link. These are dual published off of my..." data-date="2024-04-01">thought</a>. It's a short note that I make
    about someone else's content online <a href="/tags/thoughts/" class="hashtag-tag" data-tag="thoughts" data-count=2 data-reading-time=3 data-reading-time-text="3 minutes">#thoughts</a>