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Which pip Just Answered You? Two Commands Before You Trust pip install in a uv Project

uv venv ships no pip, so your shell may quietly use a different one.

You ran `uv venv`, pasted `pip install requests` from a tutorial, and either pip is missing — or worse, the install “succeeds” into the wrong Python and your script still can’t import it. This explains why `uv venv` ships no pip, how your shell then grabs a different one off the PATH, and the two-command check (`which pip`, then `python -m pip --version`) that catches it — plus the `uv add` / `uv pip install` / `uv run` equivalents.

Written by Dmitri Volkov — already drafted, fact-checked and signed off by the editor.