I had two separate questions about the generation of

BUILD

files for

python_tests

targets. See the code snippets below for reference. • Why is a

name

parameter generated at all? Why is this necessary? • Why is it that sometimes a

"tests0"

string is (rarely) used for a name, whereas other times

"tests"

is used?

# path/to/some/BUILD
python_tests(
    name="tests0",
)

# path/to/another/BUILD
python_tests(
    name="tests",
)

Name is needed so it can be referenced and targeted, otherwise Pants can't differentiate between e.g.

python_sources()

and

python_tests()

within a BUILD file.

Exactly, this section: https://www.pantsbuild.org/docs/targets#target-addresses. We need an unambiguous way to refer to each "target"

I see. Thank you!