Pylint prefers list comprehension over filter...

[DFS]

On 5/10/2016 3:34 PM, Terry Reedy wrote:
> On 5/10/2016 9:51 AM, Claudiu Popa wrote:
>
>> Thank you for letting us know. While pylint is indeed
>> opinionated in some cases, we're not trying to be
>> "arrogant", as you put it, towards Guido or the other core
>> developers. What's sad in this particular case is that the
>> feedback had to come in rather a harsh manner, on this group,
>> instead of being reported as a bug or an enhancement on pylint's
>> bug tracker.
>
> My impression is that the objection to 'bad builtin' was communicated
> somehow to someone involved with PyLint  at least a year ago and ignored
> or outright rejected.  But I don't remember details.  I might be
> mistaken or have been given false information.
>
>> Anyway, I wanted to tell you that I agree with your opinion
>> regarding that message and as such, it is removed and won't be
>> emitted anymore in the next release (1.6)
>
> Then my harsh comment re pylint is not currently valid.  Thank you.
>
> Hiring managers misusing the score to evaluate applicants is a different
> issue.

Interesting.

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