Can one disable a goal on a BUILD file basis? We have a directory

exp

which is for experimental code. Our ML engineers perform hideous acts in there that upset the linter and typechecker. There's a

skip_mypy

field on python source, but I'm gonna guess that's not respected by pyright. Would it be worth having a general

skip_check

and

skip_lint

field?

There is a

skip_pyright

field as well (not sure from which version) that doesn’t seem to be in the docs yet. And you can set them for an entire subtree using

__defaults__({(python_source, python_sources): dict(skip_pyright=True)})

https://github.com/pantsbuild/pants/blob/5a3dddfb73c7ff8e4b8940dd5a6cae970c0c408b/[…]src/python/pants/backend/python/typecheck/pyright/skip_field.py

Groovy. I'll go check for a skip_ruff, too. That's helpful, thanks.

I don't deserve you, Andreas.

tip:

pants python_source --help-advanced

will give you up-to-date info for your version

Glad to know I'm not alone in having a team of naughty naughty engineers doing naughty naughty things in an

experimental

directory

For pyright specifically, you can exclude ignored files in

pyrightconfig.json

and handle this at the tool level:

{
  "exclude": [
    "**/node_modules",
    "**/__pycache__",
    "experimental",
    ...

Aye, but I wanted to do it through the BUILD so it's easier to opt back in. I've now got

/exp/BUILD

that skips black, ruff, pyright, then I can override that again in

/exp/users/bob

because I'm not a savage

I’ve had a hard time testing that one, but to use the dreaded phrase…it works on my machine 😂

We can fire it up on our

build-test

fork and see how it goes, I'll just open a bunch of PRs and see if they all work