Rename whitelist to allowlist (#5614)

Resolves #4436

I want to add stubtest for third party stubs, and figured it'd be easier
to make this change now.

Co-authored-by: hauntsaninja <>

tests/stubtest_unused.py

@@ -1,13 +1,13 @@
 #!/usr/bin/env python3
 
-# Runs stubtest and prints each unused whitelist entry with filename.
+# Runs stubtest and prints each unused allowlist entry with filename.
 import subprocess
 import sys
 from pathlib import Path
 from typing import List, Tuple
 
 _UNUSED_NOTE = "note: unused allowlist entry "
-_WHITELIST_PATH = Path("tests") / "stubtest_whitelists"
+_ALLOWLIST_PATH = Path("tests") / "stubtest_allowlists"
 
 
 def main() -> None:
@@ -30,11 +30,11 @@ def unused_files(unused: str) -> List[Tuple[str, str]]:
     files = ["py3_common.txt", version + ".txt", sys.platform + ".txt", sys.platform + "-" + version + ".txt"]
     found = []
     for file in files:
-        path = _WHITELIST_PATH / file
+        path = _ALLOWLIST_PATH / file
         if find_unused_in_file(unused, path):
             found.append((path.as_posix(), unused))
     if not found:
-        raise ValueError("unused item {} not found in any whitelist file".format(unused))
+        raise ValueError("unused item {} not found in any allowlist file".format(unused))
     return found