Rye Has a Free Python Tool That Replaces pip, venv, pyenv, and Poetry — One Binary Does It All
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The Python Tooling Problem To start a Python project in 2025, you need: pyenv to manage Python versions venv or virtualenv to create environments pip to install packages pip-tools or poetry for lockfiles setuptools or hatchling for building That's 5 tools to do what should be 1. Rye is that 1 tool. Written in Rust by the creator of Flask (Armin Ronacher). What Rye Gives You Python Version Management # Install any Python version rye pin 3.12 rye pin