Using `uv run` as a task runner

[my1e5]

For those of us migrating over from Rye, one of its nice features is the built-in task runner using rye run and [tool.rye.scripts]. For example:

[tool.rye.scripts]
hello = "echo Hello from Rye!"

$ rye run hello
Hello from Rye!

It could have some more features - here is a selection of feature requests from the community:

• https://github.com/astral-sh/rye/issues/695
• https://github.com/astral-sh/rye/issues/652
• https://github.com/astral-sh/rye/issues/930
• https://github.com/astral-sh/rye/issues/1243

A lot of these requested features are things that other 3rd party tools currently offer. I thought it might be useful to highlight a few other tools here, in particular because they also integrate with the pyproject.toml ecosystem and can be used with uv today.

• Poe the Poet

  https://github.com/nat-n/poethepoet

  uv add --dev poethepoet
  

  [tool.poe.tasks]
  hello = "echo Hello from poe!"
  

  $ uv run poe hello
  Poe => echo Hello from 'poe!'
  Hello from poe!
  

• taskipy

  https://github.com/taskipy/taskipy

  uv add --dev taskipy
  

  [tool.taskipy.tasks]
  hello = "echo Hello from taskipy!"
  

  $ uv run task hello
  Hello from taskipy!
  

Perhaps these can serve as some inspiration for a future uv run task runner and also in the meantime offer a solution for people coming over from Rye looking for a way to run tasks.