Maybe this is trivial but I don’t see it right now: if a python package comes with a command-line interface that it “installs”, how can how run that through pants (i.e. using the exact dependency from the lockfile)?

Are you trying to run it “interactively”? One option is

pants run path/to:dependency

if the entry point is a default one. Otherwise building a

pex_binary

using that dependency and its scripts as configuration.

Yeah, I am basically asking what the equivalent of

python -m some_module

is. When you say

pants run path/to:dependency

(or

pants run path/to/dependencies_target#dependency

) does that, thanks. (With the difference that

dependency

here is the “PyPI package name”, not the

module

name — in cases they have a mismatch.)