Hi Pants! When I have a library target, is there a way I can pip install it?

Hi! Library is a misnomer and we've thought about changing it. To make something installable by pip, you would do https://www.pantsbuild.org/docs/python-distributions

To

python_module

?

What is

python_module

? I want to be able to just

pip install

a wheel or something built by a pants target; I think the link Erik provided does it

Andreas, the proposal was to rename to

python_sources

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1afm8NhCuE19YyNZHJCrig9EnaV0eJrSsIVWXL7eDflA/edit

What is 

python_module

 ?

Nothing, does not exist. Sorry if I was vague, it was directed at @hundreds-father-404 asking if that was the name they thought about changing

python_library

to, which it turns out it was not 😉

@ambitious-student-81104 yeah,

python_distribution

is what you want. You can use it in one of two ways: 1) A handwritten

setup.py

, 2) Let Pants generate

setup.py

for you. In the latter case if you have multiple such

python_distributions

Pants figures out which of your python modules should go in each one, and how they depend on each other.