Rye is a fantastic packaging solution for Python. See Python Package Management – Rye is All You Need by Elliot Simpson (Kiwi PyCon 2024)

There have been a couple of things to work out though.

Installing Rye on A Colleague’s Windows Computer in a Corporate Setting

The installation didn’t seem to properly work. Solution – switch off VPN when trying to install rye. Success! 🙂

Guardrails-AI

Most versions worked fine with rye but 0.5.10 didn’t make it possible to run the guardrails hub commands to install valid_sql e.g.

guardrails hub install hub://guardrails/valid_sql

So, having activated the virtual environment, I did a pip installation instead

python -m pip install guardrails-ai

and then added the dependency to pyproject.toml so rye wouldn’t remove it if I ran rye sync later. Installing valid_sql from guardrails hub worked after that.

wxPython

I ran:

rye add wxpython

and it built it successfully. Unfortunately, I didn’t build support for webview in.

Problem – trying to run the following didn’t work:

wx.html2.WebView.New() -> NotImplementedError

To build support for webview I needed to:

sudo apt install libwebkit2gtk-4.1-dev

and

sudo apt install clang

to avoid the error:

error: command 'clang' failed: No such file or directory

and possibly libwebkit2gtk-4.1-dev (although I haven’t checked whether removing it breaks things)

rye remove wxpython

Then, before running:

rye add wxpython --sync

I deleted ~/.cache/uv/built-wheels-v2/index/b2a7eb67d4c26b82/wxpython

Everything built correctly after that.