pylint: What's wrong with the builtin map()

[Georg Brandl]

Tuomas wrote:
> #!/usr/bin/python
> """test pydev_0.9.3/../pylint"""
> __revision__ = "test_mod 0.1 by TV 06/10/22"
> 
> lst = ['aaa', ' bbb', '\tccc\n']
> lst = map(lambda x: x.strip(), lst)
> 
> result = """
> No config file found, using default configuration
> ************* Module test_mod
> W:  6: Used builtin function 'map'
> E:  6: Using variable 'x' before assigment

Some people think that all occurences of map() must be replaced
by list comprehensions. The designer of pylint seems to be
one of those.

Georg