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| author | Ville Skyttä <ville.skytta@iki.fi> | 2018-06-12 10:34:09 +0300 |
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| committer | Claudiu Popa <pcmanticore@gmail.com> | 2018-06-12 09:50:37 +0200 |
| commit | 740906eeacc75049f1f85a955f5f23173db8b36f (patch) | |
| tree | 7082f33a4a19620194d4a9d015d6728631a0928e | |
| parent | 1347e2a966b2afb99acc812becf3d6f7503eea8c (diff) | |
| download | pylint-git-740906eeacc75049f1f85a955f5f23173db8b36f.tar.gz | |
Document jobs=0 behavior in help message and man page
| -rw-r--r-- | man/pylint.1 | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | pylint/lint.py | 3 |
2 files changed, 3 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/man/pylint.1 b/man/pylint.1 index 6f644efef..9341ed435 100644 --- a/man/pylint.1 +++ b/man/pylint.1 @@ -53,7 +53,7 @@ Pickle collected data for later comparisons. [current: yes] .IP "--load-plugins=<modules>" List of plugins (as comma separated values of python modules names) to load, usually to register additional checkers. [current: none] .IP "--jobs=<n-processes>, -j <n-processes>" -Use multiple processes to speed up Pylint. [current: 1] +Use multiple processes to speed up Pylint. Specifying 0 will auto-detect the number of processors available to use. [current: 1] .IP "--extension-pkg-whitelist=<pkg[,pkg]>" A comma-separated list of package or module names from where C extensions may be loaded. Extensions are loading into the active Python interpreter and may run arbitrary code [current: none] diff --git a/pylint/lint.py b/pylint/lint.py index 893357570..f4efe4e84 100644 --- a/pylint/lint.py +++ b/pylint/lint.py @@ -398,7 +398,8 @@ class PyLinter(config.OptionsManagerMixIn, {'type' : 'int', 'metavar': '<n-processes>', 'short': 'j', 'default': 1, - 'help' : '''Use multiple processes to speed up Pylint.''', + 'help' : 'Use multiple processes to speed up Pylint. Specifying 0 will ' + 'auto-detect the number of processors available to use.', }), ('unsafe-load-any-extension', |