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-# Aspect's Bazel rules for python
+# Aspect's Bazel rules for Python
 
 `aspect_rules_py` is a layer on top of `rules_python`, the standard Python ruleset hosted at
 https://github.com/bazelbuild/rules_python.
-It is currently in pre-release, but we are committed to more development towards a 1.0 stable release.
-
-The lower layer of `rules_python` is currently reused, dealing with the toolchain and dependencies:
-
-- Same toolchain for fetching a hermetic python interpreter.
-- `pip_parse` rule for translating a requirements-lock.txt file into Bazel repository fetching rules
-  and installing those packages into external repositories.
-- The Gazelle extension for generating BUILD.bazel files works the same.
+The lower layer of `rules_python` is currently reused, dealing with the toolchain and dependencies.
 
 However, this ruleset introduces a new implementation of `py_library`, `py_binary`, and `py_test`.
 Our philosophy is to behave more like idiomatic python ecosystem tools, where rules_python is closely
 tied to the way Google does Python development in their internal monorepo, google3.
 
-Things you'll love about rules_py:
+| Layer                                       | Legacy       | Recommended      |
+| ------------------------------------------- | ------------ | ---------------- |
+| rules: BUILD file UI                        | rules_python | **rules_py**     |
+| gazelle: generate BUILD files               | rules_python | rules_python [1] |
+| pip_parse: fetch and install deps from pypi | rules_python | rules_python     |
+| toolchain: fetch hermetic interpreter       | rules_python | rules_python     |
+
+_Need help?_ This ruleset has support provided by https://aspect.dev.
+
+[1] we will likely fork the extension for performance, using TreeSitter to parse Python code rather than a Python program.
 
-- We don't mess with the Python `sys.path`/`$PYTHONPATH`. Instead we use the standard `site-packages` folder layout produced by `pip_install`. This avoids problems like package naming collisions with built-ins (e.g. `collections`) or where `argparse` comes from a transitive dependency instead.
-- We run python in isolated mode so we don't accidentally break out of Bazel's action sandbox, fixing bugs like:
+## Differences
+
+We think you'll love rules_py because:
+
+- The launcher uses the Bash toolchain rather than Python, so we have no dependency on a system interpreter. Fixes:
+  - [py_binary with hermetic toolchain requires a system interpreter](https://github.com/bazelbuild/rules_python/issues/691)
+- We don't mess with the Python `sys.path`/`$PYTHONPATH`. Instead we use the standard `site-packages` folder layout produced by `pip_install`. This avoids problems like package naming collisions with built-ins (e.g. `collections`) or where `argparse` comes from a transitive dependency instead. Fixes:
+  - [Issues with PYTHONPATH resolution in recent python/rules_python versions](https://github.com/bazelbuild/rules_python/issues/1221)
+- We run python in isolated mode so we don't accidentally break out of Bazel's action sandbox. Fixes:
   - [pypi libraries installed to system python are implicitly available to builds](https://github.com/bazelbuild/rules_python/issues/27)
   - [sys.path[0] breaks out of runfile tree.](https://github.com/bazelbuild/rules_python/issues/382)
+  - [User site-packages directory should be ignored](https://github.com/bazelbuild/rules_python/issues/1059)
 - We create a python-idiomatic virtualenv to run actions, which means better compatibility with userland implementations of [importlib](https://docs.python.org/3/library/importlib.html).
-- Thanks to the virtualenv, you can open the project in an editor like PyCharm and have working auto-complete, jump-to-definition, etc.
-- The launcher uses the Bash toolchain rather than Python, so we have no dependency on a system interpreter.
-
-_Need help?_ This ruleset has support provided by https://aspect.dev.
+- Thanks to the virtualenv, you can open the project in an editor like PyCharm and have working auto-complete, jump-to-definition, etc. Fixes:
+  - [Smooth IDE support for python_rules](https://github.com/bazelbuild/rules_python/issues/1401)
+
+> [!NOTE]
+> What about the "starlarkification" effort in rules_python?
+>
+> We think this is only useful within Google, because the semantics of the rules will remain identical.
+> Even though the code will live in bazelbuild/rules_python rather than
+> bazelbuild/bazel, it still cannot change without breaking Google-internal usage, and has all the ergonomic bugs
+> above due to the way the runtime is stubbed.
 
 ## Installation