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| author | tbennett0 <tbennett0@users.noreply.github.com> | 2022-07-02 00:24:32 -0600 |
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| committer | GitHub <noreply@github.com> | 2022-07-02 08:24:32 +0200 |
| commit | c2c2f51c35059302fe96311819bf7e3ff9ecfbe2 (patch) | |
| tree | 8af5fb6ca52b8ff2a464c21710076b0e682d6b70 /pylint/lint | |
| parent | 6e51b4767d77fbfd584a27c60caab21be3416ce2 (diff) | |
| download | pylint-git-c2c2f51c35059302fe96311819bf7e3ff9ecfbe2.tar.gz | |
Update docs to explain escape character not valid (#7103)
Adding note from #5415 to docs
Co-authored-by: Pierre Sassoulas <pierre.sassoulas@gmail.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'pylint/lint')
| -rw-r--r-- | pylint/lint/base_options.py | 3 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/pylint/lint/base_options.py b/pylint/lint/base_options.py index d909e39c5..3ee0d5238 100644 --- a/pylint/lint/base_options.py +++ b/pylint/lint/base_options.py @@ -69,7 +69,8 @@ def _make_linter_options(linter: PyLinter) -> Options: "default": [], "help": "Add files or directories matching the regex patterns to the " "ignore-list. The regex matches against paths and can be in " - "Posix or Windows format.", + "Posix or Windows format. Because '\\' represents the directory delimiter " + "on Windows systems, it can't be used as an escape character.", }, ), ( |