> UV scripts are great for this type of workflow

So previously when I have seen Python used as a task runner I think they used UV to call it. Although I don't think they had as a complete solution as your here auto-installing UV etc.

Although the example you've linked is installing UV if missing, the version is not pinned, I also don't think it is handling missing Python which is not pinned even if installed locally. So you could get different versions on CI vs locally.

While yes you are removing some of the dependencies problems created via using Python over Make/Shell I don't think this completely solves it.

> Something like this can start out simple and can scale much more than the limitations of bash which can be abundant at times

I personally haven't witnessed anytime I would consider the scales to have tipped in favour of Python and I would be concerned if they ever do, as really the task runner etc should be plumbing, so it should be simple.

> That being said, I still make some shell scripts because executing other applications is first class support in bash but not so much in python but after discovering this I might create some new scripts with python with automated uv because I end up installing uv on many devices anyway (because uv's really good for python)

Using Python/UV to do anything more complex than my example PR above?

I think UV scripts can/will actually install python and manage it itself as well and you can actually pin a specific version of python itself via Uv scripts

I copied this from their website (https://docs.astral.sh/uv/guides/scripts/#declaring-script-d...)

uv also respects Python version requirements: example.py

# /// script # requires-python = ">=3.12" # dependencies = [] # ///

# Use some syntax added in Python 3.12 type Point = tuple[float, float] print(Point)

> Using Python/UV to do anything more complex than my example PR above?

I can agree that this might be complex but that complexity has a trade off and of course nothing is shoe fits all but there are times when someone has to manage a complex CI environment and I looked at and there are some CI deterministic options too like invoke etc. and when you combine all of these, I feel like the workflow can definitely be interesting to say the least

Once again, I don't know what really ends up in github actions since I have never really used it properly, I am basing its critiques based on what I've read and what solutions (python came quite frequently) and something recently which I discovered (which was the blog)