Tools break (understandably) after upgrading system Python

[akx]

I ran a long-overdue brew upgrade on my system yesterday, and since [email protected] 3.12.4 -> 3.12.7_1, I knew I'd have to nuke my venvs (which is related to #1495 – since my venvs are in ~/venvs, I don't need to hunt them around my project folders...) since the base interpreter is gone.

uv tools also break (though pipx-installed tools haven't broken! I suppose pipx doesn't fully resolve a symlink Python executable and just uses /opt/homebrew/bin/python3.12 instead of /opt/homebrew/Cellar/[email protected]/3.12.7_1/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.12/bin/python3.12?), and uv tool list doesn't make it perfectly easy to recover:

$ uv tool list
Python interpreter not found at `/Users/akx/Library/Application Support/uv/tools/jupyter-core/bin/python3`
Python interpreter not found at `/Users/akx/Library/Application Support/uv/tools/pre-commit/bin/python3`
Python interpreter not found at `/Users/akx/Library/Application Support/uv/tools/segno/bin/python3`

Happily, I have Fish shell history to help me, so I knew to uv tool install segno --with qrcode-artistic and uv tool install pre-commit --with pre-commit-uv (and get rid of Jupyter, that was just for testing).

$ uv tool list
pre-commit v4.0.1
- pre-commit
segno v1.6.1
- segno

Ideas:

• uv tool reinstall-all? Looks like tools' uv-receipt.tomls contain the requirements, so uv could just Do The Thing.

[zanieb]

I believe this is a duplicate of #1640 (which we are attempting to address in #8419 via #8481)

There's also some related issues

• FR: List and repair broken uv tool venvs (e.g. after a python upgrade). #8028
• Detect when managed toolchains are in use during uninstall #4718
• Upgrade tool Python patch versions automatically on managed Python upgrade #7287