I have a python file i want to run before another file as a sort of "dependency" - what's the best way to do these? In the example below it would be like "i want to run my migration script"?

python_source(
    name="web",
    source="web.py",
    dependencies=["scripts:migrate"]
)

I don't know of a way to run more than one thing, which is also annoying to me! Your question prompted me to finally write up an issue about it: https://github.com/pantsbuild/pants/issues/19403. Thanks! (I hope it's not out of scope 😅 ) For the specific case of wanting web to run migrate, in the short term, can you have

web.py

import a function (e.g.

main

) from

migrate.py

, or have a script that wraps both? Effectively using Python as the command runner, rather than make/shell/pants: e.g.

do_it_all.py

:

from . import web, migrate
migrate.main()
web.main()

Not great, though. An another alternative in the short term would be continuing to use an external orchestrator, like make or npm.

Yeah all good - as long as i'm not missing something in the docs. Really just looks like pants is focusing on build related things and that's okay