Hello, is there an easy way to inspect the setup.py that is auto-generated from a python_distribution target?

I think it is probably consider generated code, so running

pants export-codegen path/to:distribution

may output it into a subfolder of

dist/

. (I’m not sure though, so I may be giving you bad advice 😅 )

One way to do it is to look at the sandbox. For example if you run:

pants --keep-sandboxes=always --no-local-cache package helloworld:py_dist

(in this case I added a python_distribution to example-python and called it

helloworld:py_dist

). then you'll see something like:

15:51:01.51 [INFO] Preserving local process execution dir /private/var/folders/z4/dvm2try15dg7gl1vcc_6pv140000gn/T/pants-sandbox-WBRGRi for Run setuptools.build_meta:__legacy__ for helloworld:py_dist
15:51:01.79 [INFO] Wrote dist/helloworlddist-1.0.0-py3-none-any.whl
15:51:01.79 [INFO] Wrote dist/helloworlddist-1.0.0.tar.gz

get logged at the end. Then you can look in the sandbox and you will find the generated setup.py.

$ cat /private/var/folders/z4/dvm2try15dg7gl1vcc_6pv140000gn/T/pants-sandbox-WBRGRi/chroot/setup.py

# DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE -- AUTOGENERATED BY PANTS
# Target: helloworld:py_dist

from setuptools import setup

setup(**{
    'install_requires': (
        'helloworld.translator==0.0.1',
        'setuptools<57,>=56.2.0',
        'types-setuptools<58,>=56.2.0',
    ),
    'name': 'helloworlddist',
    'namespace_packages': (
    ),
    'package_data': {
        'helloworld.greet': (
            'translations.json',
        ),
    },
    'packages': (
        'helloworld',
        'helloworld.greet',
    ),
    'python_requires': '==3.9.*',
    'version': '1.0.0',
})

Yeah, it's not codegen in that sense