Question about listing dependencies in python projects. How do I list internal dependencies within a project? I have a large monorepo, and it would be super useful to see what other modules in the repo that module A depends on

Hi! Do you mean like the dependencies goal? https://www.pantsbuild.org/docs/project-introspection#dependencies---find-a-targets-dependencies

Yeah! I must be missing some subtleties here. But lets say I have

code/
  A/
    a.py
  B/
    b.py

And in

b.py

I have

from code.A.a import a_function

How do I see that

b.py

depends on

a.py

using the

dependencies

goal?

you would say

./pants dependencies path/to/b.py

or

./pants dependencies --transitive path/to/b.py

. If you're not seeing what you'd expect, then dependency inference isn't working for some reason: https://www.pantsbuild.org/docs/troubleshooting#import-errors-and-missing-dependencies

Yeah inference doesn't appear to be working the way I would expect. It correctly lists all my third part dependencies but misses all the internal dependencies

Okay, so this would be the section in that guide "Is the missing import from first-party code? Common issues:" It sounds like this is likely source roots not set up correctly yet

ah ha! It was my source root for sure. My repo is still in [this format](https://www.pantsbuild.org/docs/source-roots#no-source-root). Thanks a ton for sorting that out (and my apologies for not reading through the docs more thoroughly before jumping in here 😛)

awesome! and nothing to apologize at all for - we know our onboarding docs are too hard to follow, and @ancient-vegetable-10556 is leading a project to rewrite them 🙂