diff --git a/ci/pylintrc b/ci/pylintrc
index 8339104d..428cc139 100644
--- a/ci/pylintrc
+++ b/ci/pylintrc
@@ -44,7 +44,7 @@ generated-members=
 [BASIC]
 
 # List of builtins function names that should not be used, separated by a comma
-bad-functions=filter,apply,input
+bad-functions=apply,input
 
 # Regular expression which should only match correct module names
 module-rgx=(([a-z_][a-z0-9_]*)|([A-Z][a-zA-Z0-9]+))$