I got annoyed trying to make all of my help strings use

{SomeField.alias}

and discovering that I had circular references, so for your edification, I give you

HelpString

. It looks like an

f

-string, but can be used to forward-refer to classes defined in the same file: https://github.com/pantsbuild/pants/pull/18246

help

on

Target

and

Field

subclasses now supports 0-argument lambdas, as long as you use the

help_text

helper function for help values! https://github.com/pantsbuild/pants/pull/18248

Can I have you show this off in the "notable changes" section of March's meeting?

if it gets merged yes

Cool, thanks!

Neat!!!

We went with https://github.com/pantsbuild/pants/pull/18248 instead, to preserve the mypy-friendliness of

f

-strings wherever possible