Use UV without VENV (devcontainer)

[osbyrne]

uv pip install manim_automata

error: Failed to locate a virtualenv or Conda environment (checked: VIRTUAL_ENV, CONDA_PREFIX, and .venv). Run uv venv to create a virtualenv.

my dev env is a devcontainer, specifically the image mcr.microsoft.com/devcontainers/python:1-3.12-bullseye hosted at https://github.com/devcontainers/images/blob/main/src/python

I think .venv is useful to contain python dev envs, but in my case, the whole OS is contained. I shouldn't have to use .venv

[charliermarsh]

Thanks, this is already supported -- you can pass --system or a specific Python interpreter with --python path/to/python. See the docs here: https://github.com/astral-sh/uv?tab=readme-ov-file#installing-into-arbitrary-python-environments.

[Malix-Labs]

But wait, --system doesn't work in GitHub codespaces

[zanieb]

If you don't have permissions to write to the system (as in GitHub codespaces) you should just create a virtual environment.

You can track --user support (which would be an alternative) in #2077

[Malix-Labs]

Yep, I am already tracking that one