Allow pinning managed Python versions to specific build versions by zanieb · Pull Request #15314 · astral-sh/uv

zanieb · 2025-08-15T19:24:15Z

Allows pinning the Python build version via environment variables, e.g., UV_PYTHON_CPYTHON_BUILD=.... Each variable is implementation specific, because they use different versioning schemes.

Updates the Python download metadata to include a build string, so we can filter downloads by the pin. Writes the build version to a file in the managed install, e.g., cpython-3.10.18-macos-aarch64-none/BUILD, so we can filter installed versions by the pin.

Some important follow-up here:

Include the build version in not found errors (when pinned)
Automatically use a remote list of Python downloads to satisfy build versions not present in the latest embedded download metadata

Some less important follow-ups to consider:

Allow using ranges for build version pins

zanieb · 2025-08-20T20:31:26Z

crates/uv/tests/it/common/mod.rs

@@ -220,28 +220,32 @@ impl TestContext {
    /// and `.exe` suffixes.
    #[must_use]
    pub fn with_filtered_python_names(mut self) -> Self {


Absolutely nightmarish to get the filters working on Windows and Unix. Hopefully this makes them more robust elsewhere.

zanieb · 2025-08-20T22:56:23Z

crates/uv-python/src/downloads.rs

+/// A wrapper type to display a `ManagedPythonDownload` with its build information.
+pub struct ManagedPythonDownloadWithBuild<'a>(&'a ManagedPythonDownload);
+
+impl Display for ManagedPythonDownloadWithBuild<'_> {
+    fn fmt(&self, f: &mut std::fmt::Formatter<'_>) -> std::fmt::Result {
+        if let Some(build) = self.0.build {
+            write!(f, "{}+{}", self.0.key, build)
+        } else {
+            write!(f, "{}", self.0.key)
+        }
+    }
+}


I want to make use of this for some error messages to avoid confusion when this is in a request. I'm not sure what the best way to do so is yet though.

crates/uv-python/src/python_version.rs

konstin · 2025-08-21T13:21:31Z

crates/uv-python/src/python_version.rs

+) -> Result<Option<String>, BuildVersionError> {
+    let variable = python_build_version_variable(implementation);
+
+    let Some(build_os) = env::var_os(variable) else {


We should use env::var here, this also avoids using our own error type

I don't want to use env::var here, it will error if not present and I want that to have different behavior. I also want the dedicated error type for when we perform further validation of these values in the future, e.g., we know what a well formed build version looks like.

It makes sense if we add our own validation logic on top.

crates/uv-python/src/downloads.rs

crates/uv-python/src/managed.rs

konstin · 2025-08-21T13:43:43Z

crates/uv-python/src/python_version.rs

 }

+/// Get the environment variable name for the build constraint for a given implementation.
+pub(crate) fn python_build_version_variable(implementation: ImplementationName) -> &'static str {


Should this be a method on implementation name?

It could be 🤔 I wanted to keep all this logic together but I don't feel strongly.

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