viv isn't venv

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Try before you buy!

python3 <(curl -fsSL viv.dayl.in/viv.py) run frogmouth -- gh daylinmorgan/viv

Viv is a standalone dependency-free venv creator (just needs python + pip). Viv helps you ignore silly things like managing temporary or rarely used virtual environments, while still unleashing the full power of python scripting with it's entire ecosystem at your disposal.

Viv's uncompromising insistence on portability means that it will always, only use the standard library and never exceed a single script.

See the documentation or the examples to get started.

Run the below command to install viv.

python3 <(curl -fsSL viv.dayl.in/viv.py) manage install

To access viv from within scripts you should add its location to your PYTHONPATH. By default viv will be installed to $XDG_DATA_HOME/viv or ~/.local/share/viv; you can customize this with --src.

export PYTHONPATH="$PYTHONPATH:$HOME/.local/share/viv"

pip install viv

Why is this not recommended? Mainly because viv is all about hacking your sys.path. Placing it in its own virtual environment or installing in a user site directory may complicate this endeavor.

In any Python script with external dependencies you can add this line to automate vivenv creation and installation of dependencies.

As a cli:

viv run frogmouth -- gh daylinmorgan/viv

As a python module:

__import__("viv").use("click")

As an app installer:

viv shim ruff

To remove all vivenvs you can use the below command:

viv env remove $(viv list -q)

To remove viv altogether you can use the included purge command:

python3 <(curl -fsSL viv.dayl.in/viv.py) manage purge

pip-run cowsay -- -m cowsay "moove over, pip-run"
python3 <(curl -fsSL viv.dayl.in/viv.py) run cowsay -- "moove over, pip-run"

python -m pip-run requests -- -c "import requests; print(requests.get('https://pypi.org/project/pip-run').status_code)"
python -m viv run requests -b python -- -c "import requests; print(requests.get('https://pypi.org/project/viv').status_code)"

pipx install pycowsay
viv shim pycowsay

pipx run https://gist.githubusercontent.com/cs01/fa721a17a326e551ede048c5088f9e0f/raw/6bdfbb6e9c1132b1c38fdd2f195d4a24c540c324/pipx-demo.py
python3 <(curl -fsSL viv.dayl.in/viv.py) run \
  -s https://gist.githubusercontent.com/cs01/fa721a17a326e551ede048c5088f9e0f/raw/6bdfbb6e9c1132b1c38fdd2f195d4a24c540c324/pipx-demo.py

--standalone will auto-generate a mini-function version of viv to accomplish the same basic task as using a local copy of viv. After generating this standalone shim you can freely use this script across Unix machines which have Python > 3.8 and pip. See examples/black for output of the below command.

viv freeze also supports --standalone.

python3 <(curl -fsSL viv.dayl.in/viv.py) shim black -o ./black --standalone --freeze