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PAPER - the Python Application, Package and Environment wRangler
12 mentions on Hacker News by 2 people: 0 stories, 12 comments · first 2025-02-19 · latest 2026-02-08
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…a pure-Python ~(pip/pipx replacement), from scratch with an emphasis on simplicity and elegance. https://github.com/zahlman/paper . There's more locally that I haven't pushed, including factoring some stuff out into a separate project and…
comment by zahlman · 2026-02-08 · in Ask HN: What are you working on? (February 2026) -
> Do you have anything public yet? The repo is https://github.com/zahlman/paper but it's not really usable and it's missing a bunch of local very unfinished stuff (and my README template definitely needs fixing). More of a "watch this…
comment by zahlman · 2025-12-27 · in How uv got so fast -
…are supposedly doable from Python. Yeah, to a zeroth approximation that's my current main project ( https://github.com/zahlman/paper ). Of course, I'm just some rando with apparently serious issues convincing myself to put in regular…
comment by zahlman · 2025-12-26 · in How uv got so fast -
At least in principle, I'm still working on PAPER ( https://github.com/zahlman/paper ). (Or I should say "resumed"; I was having a rough time of it mentally in the summer through October or so and didn't really get any actual coding done.)…
comment by zahlman · 2025-12-14 · in Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (December 2025) -
> So they should be able to get similar results in Python then? I'm making PAPER ( https://github.com/zahlman/paper ) which is intended to prove as much, while also filling some under-served niches (and ignoring or at least postponing some…
comment by zahlman · 2025-11-20 · in Performance hacks for faster Python code -
Presumably this: https://github.com/zahlman/paper
comment by what · 2025-09-17 · in Shai-Hulud malware attack: Tinycolor and over 40 NPM packages compromised -
…helps inform the search for future improvements. They aren't going to start over (although I am: https://github.com/zahlman/paper ) so changes need to be incremental, and constantly incorporated into the existing terrible design. Showing…
comment by zahlman · 2025-07-21 · in Man Group – Improving Python: How we made pip install twice as fast -
…https://zahlman.github.io/posts/2025/01/07/python-packaging-... [3]: https://virtualenv.pypa.io/ [4]: https://github.com/zahlman/paper [5]: https://peps.python.org/pep-0723
comment by zahlman · 2025-07-17 · in I'm switching to Python and actually liking it -
…of both of these, as long as the package is an "application" with a defined entry point; I'm making https://github.com/zahlman/paper which will lift that restriction, for people who want to `import` code but not necessarily publish their…
comment by zahlman · 2025-06-24 · in Fun with uv and PEP 723 -
…written in C to make a system call that was most likely also written in C.) Which is why I'm making https://github.com/zahlman/paper .
comment by zahlman · 2025-06-24 · in Fun with uv and PEP 723 -
…myself sit down and implement even simple things, just personal issues. But the repository is at https://github.com/zahlman/paper and I am planning a Show HN when it seems appropriate. Hopefully the existing code at least gives an idea of…
comment by zahlman · 2025-05-03 · in Show HN: Pipask – safer pip without compromising convenience -
…this is new with `uv`, nor depends on it. The installer and venv management tool I'm developing ( https://github.com/zahlman/paper ) is intended to address use cases like yours more directly. It isn't a workflow tool, but it's intended to…
comment by zahlman · 2025-02-19 · in A year of uv: pros, cons, and should you migrate