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suggestion: uv as de-facto python installer #5

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@mhyatt000

Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness (by economist Richard Thaler and legal scholar Cass Sunstein) is a foundational behavioral economics book. It argues that because human beings are prone to cognitive biases, our choices are heavily influenced by "choice architecture" (the way options are presented).

we should nudge folks into the uv ecosystem as they learn python. in addition to the convenience, there are many other benefits that can be discussed later (pyproject.toml, lockfile, uv_build, etc)

My reccomendation is to reverse the order of or omit section on installing python with brew/apt.

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2. brew is not required

uv is worth knowing about, but adds an extra dependency (Homebrew on macOS).

as per https://docs.astral.sh/uv/#installation :

curl -LsSf https://astral.sh/uv/install.sh | sh

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