Is there a way for a Python script running with Pants to access a package's CLI tools? For example, the

clang-format

package installs

clang-format

in the environment's

bin

folder, but does not have a useful Python module of its own to import. Is this executable available somewhere in the sandbox?

https://pypi.org/project/conscript/ might enable this capability

This is what you mean I think and IIUC that's only available on main / 2.19.x: https://github.com/pantsbuild/pants/pull/19315

neat, thank you both. I'm not familiar with

VenvPexRequest

under the hood; would this be available from a

pants run

command? Where would I find the executable in the sandbox?

@ancient-terabyte-9085 the PR I referenced makes all the venv

bin/

scripts available on the `PATH`; so you can use the

subprocess

module (for example) to execute such a script by name without knowing its exact path

great, thanks!