pipx-python 📦️🪛🐍

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Run the Python binary corresponding to an application installed with pipx. Also swiss-army knife of querying pipx virtualenvs.

This is quite useful if you are developing command-line tools installed with pipx install -e ., for example to run tests or debug issues.

👿 Motivation

I install a lot of command-line tools and make command-line tools. The command-line is fun, easily discoverable and highly composable. Many of these are written in Python.

Distributors have decided to push users into using pipx. This works reasonable well, if a bit slow. But one issues is that it makes debugging issues with applications a little different because everything is hidden in a different fiddley virtualenv.

This tool represents tooling I made for myself to make interacting with pipx virtualenvs less irritating.

🐍📭️🪛️ Installation

You can install pipx-python using pipx:

pipx install pipx-python

📦🪛️🐍 Usage

If you for example installed llm with pipx then you can run the version of python correponding with this app using:

pipx-python llm

To find the path to the virtualenv, use can use the --venv flag.

pipx-python llm --venv

🤑 Support this tool

If you like this tool you could give me money ($1 maybe) on my ko-fi.

You could also look at some of the other command-line tools I have created.

📖⚡️🖋️ About me

I am @readwithai. I make tools for reading, research and agency often using Obsidian.

I also produce a stream of tools related to the work I do on this.

You can follow me on X or my blog blog.