Hi everyone, I am starting with pants and trying to resolve external file fixtures that are in central folder "<root>/fixtures" which is read by pytest tests in several python libraries "<root>/libXY/tests/test_XY.py". Is it possible to instruct pants to copy this folder into its temporary hermetic env so the paths are resolved correctly? Or do I have to rewrite all the paths?

You can always use manual dependencies in your

BUILD.pants

files to instruct Pants what should also be in the sandbox. Usually though, that's brittle so you either: 1. Need to find out how to convince Pants to find those dependencies automatically 2. Have to change the paths/code so that 1. happens If you share a little more explicitly how pytest is configured to load fixtures from that path, we might be able to avoid 2 with existing facilities.

I define the fixtures in conftest like

# conftest.py
DIR_PATH = os.path.dirname(os.path.realpath(__file__))

@pytest.fixture
def data():
    with open(f"{DIR_PATH}/../../fixtures/fixture.json", "r") as fh:
        return json.load(fh)

So we have the notion of giving a hearty try to matching strings to assets, if enabled: https://www.pantsbuild.org/v2.16/docs/reference-python-infer#assets This is done rather statically and dumbly, so it wouldn't match. If you're willing to assume CWD is <build root>, you might try enabling the feature and using the string

"<path/to/>fixtures/fixture.json"

where the

<path/to>

part is the parts between the build root and that directory

OK, I will give it a try. Thanks for now