im pretty sure im running in the wrong direction, again :) i try to automate a deployment with ansible-runner. so i wrote an

deployments/project_name/main.py

script and made it invokable with

python_source

. i'm able to run it with

./pants run deployments/project_name

with and without the sandboxing feature. pretty nice but ansible-runner wants to call

ansible-playbook

via subprocess. i tried to include it as a requirement in my

python_source

but without any luck. the next try was: make a fake

ansible-playbook

executable inside my

~/.local/bin folder

. result: my

deployments/project_name/main.py

is able to find and execute it. is it the right solution to globally install ansible so it's findable by my

deployments/project_name/main.py

script or is there something i could do to include it into the path to be able to rely on the automatic fetching of ansible?

If you used a

pex_binary

target to run this with

exexution_mode="venv"

(https://www.pantsbuild.org/docs/reference-pex_binary#codeexecution_modecode) that should work. The venv execution mode puts all dependency console scripts on the

PATH

.

i tried that too, but maybe i made a mistake. i will try that again 🙂

Well, try

./pants package

against the

pex_binary

venv mode target and then run the PEX file that creates as a second step. The

run

goal has changed a bit recently and I don't have a good grasp of what it does in which version of Pants currently.

oh, i think i figured it out: if i do not give the pex_binary a name it seems the python_source wins the

run

goal. if i give it a name the pex_binary gets executed. cool, thx a lot 🙂

What version of pants are you on? Things have changed to make the end result consistent

2.14.0rc1

Ok I reread the question. So first, by running using the directory name, it's actually a shorthand for the address path/to/dirname:dirname. Likewise if you omit the name= off a target, it defaults to the directory name. I recommend either running the file

main.py

or running the binary target by name.