Summary

From what I understand from reading somewhere (I can’t remember where), UV’s mechanism for discovering the project root directory is somewhat complicated, involving searching upwards from the CWD for a .python-version file, and also searching for a pyproject.toml file but only one that contains a [project] table. That’s not exactly something that’s easy to do in a small utility shell script, yet discovering the project root can be useful in shell scripts. It would be nice if UV had a command to just print the discovered project root directory. It already does so in debug output when -v is passed to certain other unrelated subcommands, but it would be nice to not have to do horrid things with sed to the debug stream.

Example

~/myproject/some/subdir $ uv print project-dir
/home/me/myproject