---
title: "Installing Python - uv"
description: "!https://docs.astral.sh/uv/guides/install-python/"
date: 2024-08-23
published: true
tags:
  - python
  - thought
  - uv
template: link
---


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      <div class="embed-card-title">Installing and managing Python | uv</div>
      <div class="embed-card-description">A guide to using uv to install Python, including requesting specific versions, automatic installation, viewing installed versions, and more.</div>
      <div class="embed-card-meta">docs.astral.sh</div>
    </div>
  </a>
</div>


`uv` now can install python for you.  `uv` is inspired by rust's cargo, an all in one fast package and installation manager. `uv` is so fast and becoming feature complete, it's really changing the python packaging ecosystem.


``` bash
uv python install
uv python install 3.12
uv python list
```