Hi Pants team, can pants handle the libs imported programmatically (e,g, via import_module)? From my observation, pants does not seems automatically handle them? I can add those libs manually in BUILD files, but there are lots of them in my use case. I could also ‘consolidate’ those BUILD files by combining them and moving it to a parent folders. But, in that case, the dependencies feature will be ‘lost’ in some way as every thing in the parent folder will depend on all those libs manually added. Any suggestion to handle it better?

Hello! You can try this https://www.pantsbuild.org/docs/reference-python-infer#section-string-imports

does it work for import_module(a) where a is a variable*?* or a has to be a plain str?

It looks at all strings in your code for things that look like modules, e.g.

path.to.module

. So it is fine to be a variable

So it will work for

import_module(a)

where a is a variable, as long as somewhere there is a literal

path.to.module

somewhere

em. does it work if the module name is loaded from a yaml, then using import_module to import it?

No, that won't work because there is no string literal in your code for dep inference to look at

ok. Do you mean the plugin? If yes, do you mind pointing me to the any doc? thanks

Did you ever figure this out? I never managed to make a similar plugin.