PEP 723: Embedding pyproject.toml in single-file scripts

[jamestwebber (James Webber)]

@pf_moore

But it doesn’t cover the “single file project” concept at all, and there’s a very strong (IMO) argument that if you’re already considering your single file as a project, it’s time to use a full project directory structure.

Well hold on a second

@pf_moore

Speaking very much as a user, I have things that I absolutely consider a “Python project” that are nothing more than a single script, or a single Jupyter notebook. These might well be stored in a directory that contains lots of other files and projects, none of which are in any way related to each other or to the Python project in question.

I think the overloaded definition of “project” has led to a merging of pyproject with “a project I’m working on” and PEP 723 has the potential to support the above quote better than a list of requirements alone.