The hard-to-quantify rise of package downloads for Python spell out the story of AI diffusion, if you know where to look.

Astral, which makes high-performance Python tools such as the Ruff linter, has launched uv, an “extremely fast” Python package installer and resolver written in Rust. Designed as a drop-in replacement ...

With a July update, the Python package manager will finally allow users to install only the dependencies for a project, without having to install the project itself.