I have a question about Pex binaries, which may or may not make sense… we’re using Flyte (https://flyte.org/) to deploy ML workflows. Flyte expects to be able to import our code from <some location> in a docker image (I’m not totally sure where this is, but I can figure it out). My understanding is that Pex files are meant to be executables… but is there a way to import from a pex file? If not, what would be the idomatic way to use pants to put my code into a docker image?

You can import from a PEX file if it is on the PYTHONPATH / sys.path and you execute

import __pex__

1st or else prefix all imports served by the PEX with

__pex__.

, i.e.:

from __pex__.colors import green

.

Oh, interesting…

That said, that's not what you want.

Oh, perfect, even better

Pex the tool creates PEX files. But I despise language in general and won't be offended by details like that.

😂 I’m the pedant on my team, so I appreciate that there is a distinction

I'd go all e. e. cummings and just say pex since that's what you type and what the common extension - if you use one - is. But I'm not sure how that jives with pedantry.

The best part about pedantry is that it’s annoying to everyone else no matter what I do 😂

Hah!