Defining a variable to use in multiple build files

[gudjonragnar]

I am looking at using Pants to manage a monorepo at work that primarily works with lambdas. I am facing this issue: #15454 where boto3, boto3-stubs etc. are included in the lambda zip file. I found a workaround in some issue that I lost track of that essentially boils down to something like this:

python_awslambda(
    name="awslambda",
    handler="lambda.py:handler",
    handler="my_lambda_function.py:lambda_handler",
    dependencies=["!!3rdparty/python:poetry#boto3", "!!3rdparty/python:poetry#:boto3-stubs"],
)

Since I want to ignore a set of dependencies across all of the lambdas I was hoping to define the dependencies to ignore somewhere "globally" and reference them in each BUILD file. Is that an option?

[benjyw]

Have you tried doing this with a macro: https://www.pantsbuild.org/2.19/docs/writing-plugins/macros

[gudjonragnar]

I must have completely missed this when reading through the docs! Will take a look at this. Thanks!