https://github.com/njzjz/replace-pip-with-uv-pip

Replace pip with uv pip.
https://github.com/njzjz/replace-pip-with-uv-pip

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Replace pip with uv pip.

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/njzjz/replace-pip-with-uv-pip
• Owner: njzjz
• Created: 2024-04-21T03:36:48.000Z (about 1 year ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2025-06-09T17:10:36.000Z (24 days ago)
• Last Synced: 2025-06-09T18:24:33.544Z (24 days ago)
• Language: Python
• Size: 7.81 KB
• Stars: 0
• Watchers: 1
• Forks: 0
• Open Issues: 1
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  • Readme: README.md

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# Replace pip with uv pip

[![PyPI](https://img.shields.io/pypi/v/replace-pip-with-uv-pip.svg)](https://pypi.org/project/replace-pip-with-uv-pip)

A simple script to replace [`pip`](https://github.com/pypa/pip) with [`uv pip`](https://github.com/astral-sh/uv). Note that `pip` and `uv pip` have [many differences](https://github.com/astral-sh/uv/blob/main/PIP_COMPATIBILITY.md).

Although [pip maintainers are strongly against providing `pip` -> `uv pip` alias](https://github.com/astral-sh/uv/issues/1331#issuecomment-1947355046), it's still valuable in several use cases, especially in the CI service (see below).

## Use cases

### cibuildwheel

When using [cibuildwheel](https://github.com/pypa/cibuildwheel/), the hardcoded [`pip install`](https://github.com/pypa/cibuildwheel/blob/9cf99e78bc06d33fb2947de5820be96ad9c7152c/cibuildwheel/linux.py#L349-L352) is called when testing a wheel.

There is no way to replace `pip install` with `uv pip install` on the user side.

Installing `replace-pip-with-uv-pip` is a workaround:

```toml

# in pyproject.toml:

[tool.cibuildwheel]

before-test = ["python -m pip install replace-pip-with-uv-pip"]

```