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| author | Emmanuel Chaudron <manu.chaud@hotmail.fr> | 2021-04-17 19:21:22 +0200 |
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| committer | GitHub <noreply@github.com> | 2021-04-17 19:21:22 +0200 |
| commit | 1c0ee1d59d5044e8bbbaeabf1c0c1c8de091edd2 (patch) | |
| tree | a6df09f3cdd1ef6d8eb26fb89aff7eee33bcc17f | |
| parent | c7ac7c0ec339e9a8d105ccac0e59e65cacb79272 (diff) | |
| download | pylint-git-1c0ee1d59d5044e8bbbaeabf1c0c1c8de091edd2.tar.gz | |
Use Python official doc's terminology (#4349)
A directory containing a __init__.py file is called a package, as per https://docs.python.org/3/tutorial/modules.html#packages
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/user_guide/run.rst | 6 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/doc/user_guide/run.rst b/doc/user_guide/run.rst index 43e6e2113..e020e7f2e 100644 --- a/doc/user_guide/run.rst +++ b/doc/user_guide/run.rst @@ -102,10 +102,10 @@ configuration file in the following order and uses the first one it finds: providing it has at least one ``tool.pylint.`` section. #. ``setup.cfg`` in the current working directory, providing it has at least one ``pylint.`` section -#. If the current working directory is in a Python module, Pylint searches \ - up the hierarchy of Python modules until it finds a ``pylintrc`` file. \ +#. If the current working directory is in a Python package, Pylint searches \ + up the hierarchy of Python packages until it finds a ``pylintrc`` file. \ This allows you to specify coding standards on a module-by-module \ - basis. Of course, a directory is judged to be a Python module if it \ + basis. Of course, a directory is judged to be a Python package if it \ contains an ``__init__.py`` file. #. The file named by environment variable ``PYLINTRC`` #. if you have a home directory which isn't ``/root``: |