Python overview

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The Python ecosystem has a great many tools for various features. Pants installs, configures, and invokes those tools for you, while taking care of orchestrating the workflow, caching results, and running concurrently.

Pants currently supports the following goals and features for Python:

goal	underlying tools
dependency resolution	pip
test running	pytest
linting/formatting	black, yapf, flake8, docformatter, pydocstyle isort, pylint, bandit, autoflake, pyupgrade
typechecking	MyPy
code generation	Protobuf (including the gRPC and MyPy plugins), Thrift
packaging	setuptools, pex, PyOxidizer, AWS lambda, Google Cloud Function
running a REPL	python, iPython

There are also goals for querying and understanding your dependency graph, and a robust help system. We're adding support for additional tools and features all the time, and it's straightforward to implement your own.

• Enabling Python support
• Third-party dependencies
• Interpreter compatibility
• Linters and formatters
• Pex files
• Building distributions