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Q6: Where can I inspect the venvs and lock files auto-generated by pants? (Do they exist?)

Both “locks” (or repositories) and environments are managed using the pex tool <https://pex.readthedocs.io/en/latest/>
And all those files and things normally lives in `~/.cache/pants/…` along with the `pantsd` cache database etc.

There’s also a `./pants export` goal that creates a venv for you with required dependencies and tools etc in your `dist` folder, useful for IDE integration and such.