Hi, I'd appreciate some help on how to handle requirements that are implicitly present when running certain targets, but I still need to import them in code. In particular I mean importing

pytest

in files that belong to

python_tests

. It's there when running

./pants test

and works fine, but it's rightfully not recognized by the IDE when using the env from

./pants export

How should I approach this? Should I add

pytest

to

requirements

? If so, is there a way to keep the versions synchronized?

Yeah, we’ve got it in requirements and that works well. Unfortunately “manually” is the only way to keep them synced for now… I think 2.16 or 2.17 resolves that situation by allowing pants to just use the one from requirements instead of trying to have its own.

Thanks! That's what I'll do then. Also, that sounds like a nice quality of life improvement. Can't wait to see that 🙂