For python libs, is there a good way to alias a library into a package?

I’m not following what you mean. Do you mean something like creating an alias for a

python_library

target?

like if i create a python library for sources of “libs/*.py” but i want to be able to import files from there as deploy.libs.name_here, prefixing deploy in front of the directory structure

Something like this? https://www.pantsbuild.org/docs/resources#relocated_files It probably can’t be used here, but the general idea of relocating things at runtime rather than build time

iiinteresting, is this only v2?

Yes, v2 only

Yes, and it also only works with

files()

. While you can put Python files in a

files()

target, it has some implications: - dependency inference won’t work for imports of those files - formatters/linters won’t work when running on them - Pants won’t add the “source root” to PYTHONPATH, which means it’s possible imports will fail. While Pants won’t want to add something like

relocated_python_library

, we could help you write a plugin for that if y’all were able to upgrade to 2.0.

importable files are resources

Otherwise, you’d need to physically move the files to have the directory structure you want

ill try moving directories, i was just being lazy