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

vstinner · miss-islington · commit fa7dfae31719 · 2018-09-11T16:40:06.000-07:00
In distutils.command.install, replace "pliant children" (previously, it was "pliant slaves") with "helpers".  https://bugs.python.org/issue34605
diff --git 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
