I ve apparently not used the pants introspection features mu Pants #general

I’ve apparently not used the pants introspection f...

curved-television-6568

11/25/2022, 2:41 PM

I’ve apparently not used the pants introspection features much.. is there no easy way to get the answer to: “give me all

pex_binary

targets that depends on this

python_requirement

” ? I tried

./pants dependees

(still on 2.14) but that gives me too much, and using

--filter

seems to filter my input args, not output results 😬

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hundreds-father-404

11/25/2022, 2:42 PM

pipe,

./pants dependees ... | xargs ./pants --filter-target-type=x list

curved-television-6568

11/25/2022, 2:46 PM

aaahhh.. ok, thx 🙏 😛

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hundreds-father-404

11/25/2022, 2:48 PM

for context, someone in Slack proposed changing the input behavior to do what you originally found would be intuitive. It turns out to be super complex. What's intuitive in one case is not in the other. And changing this would make some cases not possible

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hundreds-father-404

11/25/2022, 2:48 PM

So, the proposer ended up suggesting sticking with the status quo, iirc But we could probably improve docs here

curved-television-6568

11/25/2022, 2:49 PM

that… worked really well. Guess the filter arg makes more sense for output than input when used on the dependencies/dependents

curved-television-6568

11/25/2022, 2:50 PM

Ah, yes (I looked away 2 sec to get the phone, and had that typed up already.. 😛 )

curved-television-6568

11/25/2022, 2:53 PM

But we could probably improve docs here

for me, that would not have helped in this case 😅 as I wasn’t consulting them as I “knew what I was doing”, right 😁 😬 perhaps online help on stderr in case you run the same goal over and over with empty results 😛 (no, I don’t think that’s a great idea 🤪 )

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