I feel like I'm missing something obvious, but is ...
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fresh-mechanic-68429
05/30/2025, 6:23 PMI feel like I'm missing something obvious, but is there a way to negate
--filter-address-regexf
fast-nail-55400
05/30/2025, 6:33 PMI don't see a way to invert the filter in https://github.com/pantsbuild/pants/blob/d09a673b4664766c96f42c092ffc1c40c969cff3/src/python/pants/backend/project_info/filter_targets.py.
fast-nail-55400
05/30/2025, 6:33 PMCan you just negate the regular expression in regex syntax?
fast-nail-55400
05/30/2025, 6:34 PM(Python's
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fresh-mechanic-68429
05/30/2025, 6:35 PMI had tried
--filter-address-regex='(?!my-path)' Copy code
[ERROR] Problem parsing --filter-address-regex string list value:
1:(?!my-path)
-^
Expected "'", ",", "\"" or the end of a tuple indicated by ')' at line 1 column 2f
fast-nail-55400
05/30/2025, 6:49 PMAs enhancement requests go, this PR literally took less time to do than to think how to work around the lack of it. https://github.com/pantsbuild/pants/pull/22372
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fresh-mechanic-68429
05/30/2025, 6:52 PM🙏 appreciate it
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fast-nail-55400
05/30/2025, 6:58 PMWe will spend more time thinking about the proper UX than actual implementation time. 🙂
fast-nail-55400
06/04/2025, 6:46 PMAn update: It looks Pants already has a
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06/04/2025, 6:53 PMFor example,
pants list :: --filter-address-regex="['^helloworld/']" --filter-address-regex="-tests$"example-pythonhelloworld/testsfast-nail-55400
06/06/2025, 9:38 PMhttps://github.com/pantsbuild/pants/pull/22387 updates the documentation to be clearer.
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