Merge remote-tracking branch 'Adafruit/master' into api_example

# Conflicts:
#	docs/examples.rst

Author: jposada202020

.pylintrc

@@ -22,8 +22,7 @@ ignore-patterns=
 #init-hook=
 
 # Use multiple processes to speed up Pylint.
-# jobs=1
-jobs=2
+jobs=1
 
 # List of plugins (as comma separated values of python modules names) to load,
 # usually to register additional checkers.
@@ -253,7 +252,7 @@ ignore-docstrings=yes
 ignore-imports=yes
 
 # Minimum lines number of a similarity.
-min-similarity-lines=4
+min-similarity-lines=12
 
 
 [BASIC]

adafruit_display_text/__init__.py

@@ -235,8 +235,6 @@ def __init__(
 
         self._text = text
 
-        if label_direction not in ["LTR", "RTL", "UPR", "DWR", "TTB"]:
-            raise RuntimeError("Please provide a valid text direction")
         self._label_direction = label_direction
 
         self.baseline = -1.0

adafruit_display_text/bitmap_label.py

@@ -108,6 +108,9 @@ def __init__(self, font, **kwargs) -> None:
         self.background_color = kwargs.get("background_color", None)
         self._label_direction = kwargs.get("label_direction", "LTR")
 
+        if self._label_direction not in ["LTR", "RTL", "UPD", "UPR", "DWR"]:
+            raise RuntimeError("Please provide a valid text direction")
+
         if self._label_direction == "RTL":
             self._text = "".join(reversed(self._text))
 

adafruit_display_text/label.py

@@ -127,6 +127,9 @@ def __init__(self, font, **kwargs) -> None:
         self.base_alignment = kwargs.get("base_alignment", False)
         self._label_direction = kwargs.get("label_direction", "LTR")
 
+        if self._label_direction not in ["LTR", "RTL", "UPR", "DWR", "TTB"]:
+            raise RuntimeError("Please provide a valid text direction")
+
         if text is not None:
             self._update_text(str(text))
         if (kwargs.get("anchored_position", None) is not None) and (