Pipy: Consistent Python Development Environments

Pipy helps you manage your python development environment and is meant to serve as a replacement to virtualenv. Instead of virtual environments, pipy launches, pauses, and unpauses containers to create isolated and reproducible development environments.

Introduction

pipy is installed using pip.

pip install pipy

Usage

To create an isolated Python environment:

pipy open

To clean up a created environment:

pipy close

Configuration

pipy uses the standardized pyproject.toml to handle declaring, managing, and installing Python dependencies.

[tool.pipy]
name = "pipy"

[[tool.pipy.aliases]]
name = "setup"
commands = []  # Shell commands to execute to setup environment.

pipy expects a default alias setup to be pre-defined in order to setup the environments as they are created.