is there a way to make

./pants dependencies --type=3rdparty

output the value of

[python-repos].indexes.add

as well?

Hello! Not currently. Do you mean that you want for some deps to use a particular index, and others to use a different index? To get the value of

[python-repos].indexes

, you can use either

./pants help-advanced python-repos

, which will show you the current value. Or use

./pants help-all

, which will output JSON and you can use something like JQ to parse.

i'm trying to script up creating a virtualenv from the deps so my IDE can understand what's going on 🙂

i’m trying to script up creating a virtualenv from the deps so my IDE can understand what’s going on

Very helpful indeed. See https://www.pantsbuild.org/docs/python-third-party-dependencies#tip-set-up-a-virtual-environment-optional for a starter script

this is the beginning of it with `help-all`:

./pants help-all | jq '.scope_to_help_info["python-repos"].advanced | map(select(.config_key=="indexes")) | .[0].value_history'

… although the structure doesn’t seem to render the final value directly, so you’d still need some logic.

Yep

nice jq, i would have had no idea how to write that 😄

nice jq, i would have had no idea how to write that

i learned yesterday! heh.

is there a good way to export “editable installs” to this venv?

You want to create a

.whl

for your code, and then have pip install it via an editable install? What’s the motivation? Generally, for an IDE with creating the venv, I’d think you only want your 3rdparty reqs in it, and then have the IDE treat your first-party code like it normally would, rather than loading it via an editable install

hmm maybe i don't know how to confgure my IDE right then

Which IDE are you using?

i'm using vscode, which seems to defer as much as possible to the code environment it's connected to

Okay cool, and it isn’t understanding your first-party imports, it sounds like? What are your source roots configured to for Pants? For PyCharm, I had to teach it that

src/python

is a source root so that it knows the import

pants.util.strutil

is really from

src/python/pants/util/strutil.py

nvm found it https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/python/environments#_use-of-the-pythonpath-variable