yen

The easiest Python environment manager. Create virtual environments for any Python version, without needing Python pre-installed.

Installation

Get the tool by running the following command:

• MacOS / Linux:

  curl -L yen.tushar.lol/install.sh | sh

• Windows:

  curl -L yen.tushar.lol/install.bat | cmd

or if you prefer, get it by pip:

pip install yen

Usage

$ yen list
Available Pythons:
3.11.5
3.10.13
3.9.18
3.8.17

$ yen create venv -p 3.11
Downloading 3.11.5 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 100.0% • 17.4/17.4 MB • 12.4 MB/s • 0:00:00
Created venv with Python 3.11.5 ✨

By default the python-installation will be done in ~/.yen_pythons.
You can change this location by setting a different path using the environment variable `YEN_PYTHONS_PATH`.

$ source venv/bin/activate

(venv) $ python --version
Python 3.11.5

Local Development / Testing

• Create and activate a virtual environment
• Run pip install -r requirements-dev.txt to do an editable install
• Run pytest to run tests

Type Checking

Run mypy .

Create and upload a package to PyPI

Make sure to bump the version in setup.cfg.

Then run the following commands:

rm -rf build dist
python setup.py sdist bdist_wheel

Then upload it to PyPI using twine:

twine upload dist/*