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authorNed Batchelder <ned@nedbatchelder.com>2017-05-13 09:06:40 -0400
committerClaudiu Popa <pcmanticore@gmail.com>2017-05-13 16:06:40 +0300
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Make the help accurate: multiple modules are allowed (#1449)
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@@ -7,9 +7,10 @@ Invoking Pylint
Pylint is meant to be called from the command line. The usage is ::
- pylint [options] module_or_package
+ pylint [options] modules_or_packages
-You should give Pylint the name of a python package or module. Pylint
+You should give Pylint the name of a python package or module, or some number
+of packages or modules. Pylint
``will not import`` this package or module, though uses Python internals
to locate them and as such is subject to the same rules and configuration.
You should pay attention to your ``PYTHONPATH``, since it is a common error