[Python-checkins] bpo-34605: Replace "pliant children" with "helpers" (GH-9195)

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https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/fa7dfae3171914f91d629a64c6e829788b485b06
commit: fa7dfae3171914f91d629a64c6e829788b485b06
branch: master
author: Victor Stinner <vstinner at redhat.com>
committer: Miss Islington (bot) <31488909+miss-islington at users.noreply.github.com>
date: 2018-09-11T16:40:06-07:00
summary:

bpo-34605: Replace "pliant children" with "helpers" (GH-9195)

In distutils.command.install, replace "pliant children" (previously,
it was "pliant slaves") with "helpers".

<!-- issue-number: [bpo-34605](https://www.bugs.python.org/issue34605) -->
https://bugs.python.org/issue34605
<!-- /issue-number -->

files:
M Lib/distutils/command/install.py

diff --git a/Lib/distutils/command/install.py b/Lib/distutils/command/install.py
index a1d1a1ea37ad..c625c95bf7e8 100644
--- a/Lib/distutils/command/install.py
+++ b/Lib/distutils/command/install.py
@@ -223,7 +223,7 @@ def initialize_options(self):
 
     def finalize_options(self):
         """Finalizes options."""
-        # This method (and its pliant children, like 'finalize_unix()',
+        # This method (and its helpers, like 'finalize_unix()',
         # 'finalize_other()', and 'select_scheme()') is where the default
         # installation directories for modules, extension modules, and
         # anything else we care to install from a Python module



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