Hi! is there a pants command to query pants that returns which python interpretor it uses?

It's almost certainly not a uniform answer. Try

./pants repl <some set of python targets or files or dirs>

then ask

sys.executable

.

arh thx

For a bit more context: what are you trying to do with the interpreter once known?

We have a terrible script which need to use python interpreter, I want to use the same one as pants

@plain-sundown-25537 how do you run Pants? A checked in

pants

script or the (not so) new scie-pants binary?

It is a random script in pants folder …

Ah okay, for the immediate need, another approach might be using

pants export

to create a venv with all the dependencies and an appropriate interpreter and then execute the script with that venv activated… having pants execute the script might be better if possible, though

Agree .. let me try

"the interpreter Pants uses" could mean two things: 1) the interpreter it uses on your code, or 2) the interpreter it uses to run itself. You shouldn't generally need to know or care about 2) unless writing plugins. So I assume you mean 1)?

Yes that is (1)

Ah, then

pants export

will give you a venv as @broad-processor-92400 mentioned. Or you can just

pants run

the script, no?