I think I've run into this before and gotten an answer, but it seems to have been lost to the amnesia of Slack. In any case, I'm trying to run Pants inside a virtualenv that is linked to a Python binary managed with pyenv and getting an error related to the symlink

⇉ ./pants tailor
11:16:35.25 [INFO] Initializing scheduler...
11:16:35.36 [INFO] Scheduler initialized.
11:16:35.42 [ERROR] 1 Exception encountered:

  Exception: Failed to read link "/home/tmacey/code/mit/data/ol-data-platform/.venv/bin/python": Absolute symlink: "/home/tmacey/.pyenv/versions/3.9.9/bin/python"

ah, so unfortunately, pants only uses the

.gitignore

at the root of your repository currently: you’ll want to ignore that

venv

directory most likely

Thanks, adding it to the .gitignore does seem to have given me a different bug to work through 🙂

…by adding something like

[GLOBAL]
pants_ignore.add = [
  '.venv/'
]

Thanks, I'm unblocked now 🙂