Solving Wordle with uv's dependency resolver

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180 points | by mildbyte 3 days ago ago

19 comments

  • simonw 20 hours ago

    Here's my favorite of the Soduku attempts at this (easier to get your head around than Wordle since it's a much simpler problem): https://github.com/konstin/sudoku-in-python-packaging

    Here's the same Sudoku trick from 2008 using Debian packages: https://web.archive.org/web/20080823224640/https://algebraic...

  • kibwen a day ago

    If you wanted to leverage uv's package resolver for a less deliberately silly purpose, note that it's using the pubgrub-rs library under the hood: https://github.com/pubgrub-rs/pubgrub

  • davejagoda 10 hours ago

    Yet another reason to use `uv`!

    I try to avoid bugs like this:

    By accident, at first, I omitted the letter u in my list of letters that I was generating packages for, which caused extremely cryptic and long (500KB of uv painstakingly explaining to me why I was wrong) dependency resolution errors on specific guesses:

    by doing this:

      import string
      LETTERS = string.ascii_lowercase
    
    instead of this:

      LETTERS = "abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz"
    
    It's a few more characters to type, but easier to examine for correctness.
    • jeremyscanvic 5 hours ago

      That's really neat. I didn't know about those string constants!

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  • Joker_vD 19 hours ago

    I express my deepest gratitude to the author for not publishing all those "wordle-*" packages to the PyPI. Thank you!

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  • stared a day ago

    Next step: playing Doom with uv's dependency resolver

    (reference to: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43184291)

    • slightwinder a day ago

      Extra points when it runs on an oscilloscope (because pregnancy testers are boring now).

    • Fuzzy1000 18 hours ago

      Yes please

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  • usernamp a day ago

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  • spelunker 20 hours ago

    Ok, now do npm!

    • chatmasta 19 hours ago

      npm allows you to have multiple versions of one package installed, so I’m not sure it will work for this, unless you use a package manager that allows you to set constraints like “only one version of this package can be installed.”

      • spelunker 19 hours ago

        Yeah, turns out I should have read TFA:

        >The short summary of the Sudoku + Poetry post is that unlike Rust or JavaScript, a single Python project cannot use more than one version of a specific Python package.