Hi Pants! I'm following <this guide> to set up my ...
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ambitious-student-81104
09/19/2021, 1:34 AMHi Pants! I'm following this guide to set up my IDE with pants, but failed at this step:
Pants sets up its development virtualenv atI currently have this in my environment but no. Point your editor to the~/.cache/pants/pants_dev_deps/<arch>.<version>.venv/file in this folder, e.g.bin/python.~/.cache/pants/pants_dev_deps/Darwin.py37.venv/bin/python
pants_dev_deps Copy code
❯ ls ~/.cache/pants
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fast-nail-55400
09/19/2021, 1:47 AMhave you run
./pants✅ 1
fast-nail-55400
09/19/2021, 1:47 AMthe venv should be setup whenever you run the
./pantsh
happy-kitchen-89482
09/19/2021, 6:46 PMSo, those instructions are specific to the pantsbuild/pants repo itself, they are for people hacking on Pants.
happy-kitchen-89482
09/19/2021, 6:47 PMThe venv that @fast-nail-55400 is referring to is the one that contains the pants code, and is probably not the one you care about?
happy-kitchen-89482
09/19/2021, 6:48 PMThese instructions are probably more relevant: https://www.pantsbuild.org/docs/setting-up-an-ide
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ambitious-student-81104
09/19/2021, 10:00 PM@fast-nail-55400 Yes I have but I don't have that directory.
@happy-kitchen-89482 Thanks for the explanation! Yah that makes more sense. Let me follow this one instead.
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fast-nail-55400
09/19/2021, 10:36 PMYeah I had assumed you meant the pants repo since you had quoted the pants_dev_deps stuff. Sorry about that!