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authorJason R. Coombs <jaraco@jaraco.com>2019-01-27 13:01:20 -0500
committerJason R. Coombs <jaraco@jaraco.com>2019-01-27 13:01:20 -0500
commit6636302f735d94fe91b83469f1610e4112a91838 (patch)
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parent91d769e88f0ae9e5dfce1fb9448864201407b579 (diff)
downloadpython-setuptools-git-bugfix/1635-disallow-parent-paths.tar.gz
Update documentation to match more aggressive absolute path exclusion in resources.bugfix/1635-disallow-parent-paths
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1 files changed, 1 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/docs/pkg_resources.txt b/docs/pkg_resources.txt
index cdc1a5a5..806f1b14 100644
--- a/docs/pkg_resources.txt
+++ b/docs/pkg_resources.txt
@@ -1133,8 +1133,7 @@ segment will be treated as a peer of the top-level modules or packages in the
distribution.
Note that resource names must be ``/``-separated paths rooted at the package,
-cannot contain relative names like ``".."``, and cannot begin with a
-leading ``/``. Do *not* use
+cannot contain relative names like ``".."``, and cannot be absolute. Do *not* use
``os.path`` routines to manipulate resource paths, as they are *not* filesystem
paths.