My biggest frustration is the lack of a good universal REPL to just play around with. It's frustrating how I have to run `uvx --with x,y,z ipython` every single time I just want to spin up some python code which may or may not use packages. (Hard to overstate how annoying it is to type out the modules list).
To me, Python's best feature is the ability to quickly experiment without a second thought. Conda is nice since it keeps everything installed globally so I can just run `python` or iPython/Jupyter anywhere and know I won't have to reinstall everything every single time.
Would creating a `main.py` with the dependencies installed either as a uv project or inline work for you?
One thing I did recently was create a one-off script with functions to exercise a piece of equipment connected to the PC via USB, and pass that to my coworkers. I created a `main.py` and uv add'ed the library. Then when I wanted to use the script in the REPL, I just did `uv run python -i main.py`.
This let me just call functions I defined in there, like `set_led_on_equipment(led='green', on=True)` directly in the REPL, rather than having to modify the script body and re-run it every time.
Edit: another idea that I just had is to use just[0] and modify your justfile accordingly, e.g. `just pything` and in your justfile, `pything` target is actually `uv run --with x,y,z ipython`
Edit edit: I guess the above doesn't even require just, it could be a command alias or something, I probably am overengineering that lol.
[0]: https://github.com/casey/just