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Another question is why would, all packages named `utils` not be picked up by pants tailor to add a BUILD file. If I rename them to `utilities` tailor finds them and adds the file

Did Pants create any target(s) with `utils` name at all?

No, every python package folder named utils is totally ignored by Pants. I noticed this because of the warnings Pants gives when I tried to run tests.

This was me being dumb, I had a utils folder in the root of the project and I added a pants_ignore "utils" to my pants.toml when I should have put "/utils" instead to avoid catching all other utils packages. :face_palm: