Hey, a UX question, what is the fastest way to run (e.g. during the development) a

console_scripts

endpoint of

python_distribution

? Similar to

./pants run <pex_target>

? Or is it incouraged to develop useing pex binaries? In this case, how to deal with those which contain huge amount of third-party heavy dependencies (think

pytorch

)? thanks in advance 🙏

When you

./pants run

a

pex_binary

it doesn't actually build the deployable .pex, so it should be pretty fast.

You would do something like this:

pex_binary(
     name="black",
     dependencies=["3rdparty/python#black"],
    script="black",
)

./pants run path/to:black

You can also set up a

[cli.alias]

to make this even easier to type: https://www.pantsbuild.org/docs/reference-cli#section-alias