Hey! I suspect that I get wrong Pants. I have a .env within my microservice directory that I would like to load, I am using load_dotenv but the function does not seems to work as it cannot find the .env file. That's why I added a resource target, like the following resource(name="env_config", source=".env") and provided a dependency within my python_sources target. But it did not seem to work. What I am missing ?

Hi! is your

.env

file within your source root?

yes

verify with

pants peek

that the dependency worked, and you can run with

--keep-sandboxes=always

to inspect the files pants actually puts there to see if it is in an unexpected location, if at all..

it seems like files with only suffix (e.g .env) cannot be loaded into pants, I had to change the name of the file (e.g prod.env) to make it work

oh, right. It’s covered by the default ignore pattern: https://www.pantsbuild.org/docs/reference-global#pants_ignore

Thanks! works 🙂