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tox-uv is a tox plugin, which replaces virtualenv and pip with uv in your tox environments. Note that you will get both the benefits (performance) or downsides (bugs) of uv.

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How to use

Install tox-uv into the environment of your tox, and it will replace virtualenv and pip for all runs:

uv tool install tox --with tox-uv # use uv to install
tox --version # validate you are using the installed tox
tox r -e py312 # will use uv
tox --runner virtualenv r -e py312 # will use virtualenv+pip

tox environment types provided

This package will provide the following new tox environments:

uv.lock support

If you want for a tox environment to use uv sync with a uv.lock file you need to change for that tox environment the runner to uv-venv-lock-runner. Furthermore, should in such environments you use the extras config to instruct uv to install the specified extras, for example:


[testenv:fix]
description = run code formatter and linter (auto-fix)
skip_install = true
deps =
    pre-commit-uv>=4.1.1
commands =
    pre-commit run --all-files --show-diff-on-failure

[testenv:type]
runner = uv-venv-lock-runner
description = run type checker via mypy
commands =
    mypy {posargs:src}

[testenv:dev]
runner = uv-venv-lock-runner
description = dev environment
extras =
    dev
    test
    type
commands =
    uv pip tree

In this example:

Note that when using uv-venv-lock-runner, all dependencies will come from the lock file, controlled by extras. Therefore, options like deps are ignored (and all others enumerated here as Python run flags).

extras

A list of string that selects, which extra groups you want to install with uv sync. By default, it is empty.

with_dev

A boolean flag to toggle installation of the uv development dependencies. By default, it is false.

dependency_groups

Specify PEP 735 – Dependency Groups to install.

uv_sync_flags

A list of strings, containing additional flags to pass to uv sync (useful because some flags are not configurable via environment variables). For example, if you want to install the package in non editable mode and keep extra packages installed into the environment you can do:

uv_sync_flags = --no-editable, --inexact

External package support

Should tox be invoked with the --installpkg flag (the argument must be either a wheel or source distribution) the sync operation will run with --no-install-project and uv pip install will be used afterward to install the provided package.

Environment creation

We use uv venv to create virtual environments. This process can be configured with the following options:

uv_seed

This flag, set on a tox environment level, controls if the created virtual environment injects pip, setuptools and wheel into the created virtual environment or not. By default, it is off. You will need to set this if you have a project that uses the old legacy-editable mode, or your project doesn’t support the pyproject.toml powered isolated build model.

uv_python_preference

This flag, set on a tox environment level, controls how uv select the Python interpreter.

By default, uv will attempt to use Python versions found on the system and only download managed interpreters when necessary. However, It is possible to adjust uv's Python version selection preference with the python-preference option.

Package installation

We use uv pip to install packages into the virtual environment. The behavior of this can be configured via the following options:

uv_resolution

This flag, set on a tox environment level, informs uv of the desired resolution strategy:

This is an uv specific feature that may be used as an alternative to frozen constraints for test environments if the intention is to validate the lower bounds of your dependencies during test executions.