OpenAI Group PBC today announced plans to acquire Astral Software Inc., a startup with a set of widely used Python ...

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Astral creates Python development tools such as uv, a package and project manager, and Ruff, a linter and formatter.

The package manager was also designed to pose minimal barriers to adoption. uv’s initial release centered on supporting pip and pip-tools APIs behind a uv pip interface, making uv usable by existing ...