pylint woes

[Chris Angelico]

On Sun, May 8, 2016 at 2:40 PM, DFS <nospam at dfs.com> wrote:
>>> It says "Used builtin function 'filter'. Using a list comprehension can
>>> be
>>> clearer. (bad-builtin)"
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>>
>> Kill that message and keep using filter.
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> Unfortunately, 'bad-builtin' caught 2 truly bad uses of built-ins (zip() and
> id()), so I'll leave that warning in.
>

Hrm, that would be called "shadowing" built-ins, not bad use of them.
Shadowing isn't usually a problem - unless you actually need id(),
there's nothing wrong with using the name id for a database key. Very
different from this message though.

ChrisA