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Zanie Blue
6b64630635
Update --python to accept paths to executables in virtual environments (#17954)
## Summary

Updates the `--python` flag to accept Python executables in virtual
environments. Notably, we do not query the executable and it _must_ be
in a canonical location in a virtual environment. This is pretty naive,
but solves for the trivial case of `ty check --python .venv/bin/python3`
which will be a common mistake (and `ty check --python $(which python)`)

I explored this while trying to understand Python discovery in ty in
service of https://github.com/astral-sh/ty/issues/272, I'm not attached
to it, but figure it's worth sharing.

As an alternative, we can add more variants to the
`SearchPathValidationError` and just improve the _error_ message, i.e.,
by hinting that this looks like a virtual environment and suggesting the
concrete alternative path they should provide. We'll probably want to do
that for some other cases anyway (e.g., `3.13` as described in the
linked issue)

This functionality is also briefly mentioned in
https://github.com/astral-sh/ty/issues/193

Closes https://github.com/astral-sh/ty/issues/318

## Test Plan

e.g.,

```
uv run ty check --python .venv/bin/python3
```

needs test coverage still
2025-05-12 15:39:04 -05:00
Micha Reiser
c1b875799b
[ty] CLI reference (#17978) 2025-05-09 14:23:24 +02:00