I have a question about using the

files

target and pointing to files outside the current

BUILD

file directory. (I saw a few comments in the channel slightly related to this but nothing seemed to capture my problem exactly). I made an entire repo to recreate my problem: https://github.com/stefan-dalecki/pants_test_files For a more detailed version of the problem, please look at the repo's README. In a nutshell,

pytest

let's me point to files (ex. csv tables) outside the current test directory. However, pants

BUILD

files require all

files

targets to be in or below the CWD. Is there a way I can move up directories to an alternative location where I store all of my constant test data files? This way, I could use

pants test ::

and not hit a

FileNotFoundError

.