Why doesn't Pylint like built-in functions?
I have a line like this: filter(lambda x: x == 1, [1, 1, 2]) Pylint is showing a warning: W: 3: Used builtin function 'filter' Why is that? is a list comprehension the recommended method? Of course I can rewrite this like this: [x for x in [1, 1, 2] if x == 1] And I get no warnings, but I was wondering if there's a PEP for this? Pylint often chatters on about stuff it shouldn't. You can disable the warning in a .pylintrc file. This page http://pylint-messages.wikidot.com/messages:w0141 indicates the problem is that filter and map have been superseded by list comprehensions. A line like this in