Setting up for development - SIMPLE-Py

Before you begin¶

You’ll want to have the following tools installed:

uv: A fast package manager written in Rust that replaces pip, venv, pipx, and more.
pixi: A fast package manager written in Rust for conda packages (high-level only replacement for conda/mamba)
A system compiler for the later parts of the workshop. (xcode-clt for macOS, Visual Studio for Windows, GCC for Linux)

These tools will be handy too, but they can be all installed via uv tool install so you don’t need to pre-install them:

prek: A linter/formatter runner, written in Rust (similar to pre-commit)
nox: A task runner

Basic concepts¶

(Or how not to break your computer)

Virtual environments¶

The first thing you should know when packaging is how to install stuff.