#18990 Make possible to ignore self dependencies in a Python module Issue created by AlexTereshenkov Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe. One should be able to control whether self imports of a module should be ignored. This is different from the

dependencies-closed

option which includes the input targets in the output. A Python module may import (and therefore depend) on itself by having an import of a member from that module or a string literal that would be mapped to that module name. You may want to skip reporting dependencies on the module itself to avoid adding

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comments. For example, it is not uncommon to declare a logger name in a Python module in this way:

```
            # src/project/console.py
            ...
            logger_name = "src.project.console"

``` which would result in having

src/project/console.py

reported as being dependent on

src/project/console.py

. When analyzing the dependency graph using graph-based tools, it is desired to avoid cycles as the expectation is that the dependency graph would be a DAG, and having cycles in the graph (

src/project/console.py

depends on itself) will impede the graph analysis. Describe the solution you'd like A new flag

--python-infer-ignore-self-imports

to control whether these type of dependencies should be ignored. Describe alternatives you've considered Adding

# pants: no-infer-dep

comments on the undesired lines which may get impractical in a large repo. pantsbuild/pants