This used to be the ``bad-builtin`` core checker, but it was moved to an extension instead. It can be used for finding prohibited used builtins, such as ``map`` or ``filter``, for which other alternatives exists. If you want to control for what builtins the checker should warn about, you can use the ``bad-functions`` option:: $ pylint a.py --load-plugins=pylint.extensions.bad_builtin --bad-functions=apply,reduce ...