Hi everyone! I am trying to package a Python application used for manufacturing HW devices into a PEX file. One module of the app calls a makefile that in turn calls some small Python scripts. The problem is that these scripts require Python packages, that are available in the PEX environment, but it appears that they are not on python include path when

/usr/bin/env python

is called from the makefile. Is there a way to give the same PEX environment ("installed" packages) to python scripts called this way? 🤔

Have you tried setting

execution_mode="venv"

on the relevant

pex_binary

target(s)?: https://www.pantsbuild.org/docs/reference-pex_binary#codeexecution_modecode

I just tried passing

--venv

to the

pex

tool and running the resulting file with

PEX_VENV=1 ./my-pex-file.pex

, but

python

still resolves to

/usr/bin/python

You'll need to pass

--venv prepend

if manually using Pex (Pants does this for you).

whoa, this did the trick!

pex --help

says more.