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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.", }, ), ( |