Hi there, I'm trying to use the

flake8-requirements

plugin. Since my

requirements.txt

is not in the project's root directory, I need to pass the

--requirements-file

option pointing to the requirements in

3rdparty/python

. So I added this to `[flake8].args`:

[flake8]
args = [
   ...,
    "--requirements-file=3rdparty/python/requirements.txt",
]

However, the plugin doesn't seem to be able to read the text file. I suspect an issue with the sandbox. Any ideas?

I think you might find that Pants can/should just provide the same functionality for you. •

Package is not listed as a requirement.

-> https://www.pantsbuild.org/docs/reference-python-infer#unowned_dependency_behavior set to

error

•

Package is required but not used.

right now it's a manual step but I'd love to write a plugin for this. Today you can run

./pants dependees <requirement address>

and pipe through

wc -l

. You should see 1 dependee (the target generator) for dependencies which aren't used

Thx @bitter-ability-32190. In the meantime, is there anything I can do to make the plugin works? In the sandbox the requirements files are not present...

Because we batch your inputs I don't think you'll find much success even if you did get it working. The

flake8

run will only have a subset of your code, so I imagine you'd get

Package is required but not used.

in a fair number of runs 😞

I see. I'll ditch

flake8-requirements

for now, and wait for your plugin 😉. Thanks for your quick response.

Defintely look into enabling the linked setting

Will do!

That's exactly why I wrote this feature 😸

hould we have a snippet in the docs regarding this plugin?

saying?

Basically my two points above. "it won't work, but that's ok because pants can do the same thing ..."

maybe in this section https://www.pantsbuild.org/docs/python-linters-and-formatters#tips-for-specific-tools