diff --git a/.circleci/config.yml b/.circleci/config.yml
index 262f15dc0..b637b5805 100644
--- a/.circleci/config.yml
+++ b/.circleci/config.yml
@@ -700,6 +700,7 @@ jobs:
             deepdiff
             colorama
             requests
+      - run: pylint --version
       - run:
           name: Linting Python Scripts
           command: ./scripts/pylint_all.py
diff --git a/scripts/gas_diff_stats.py b/scripts/gas_diff_stats.py
index 5c7aa5338..56cd0cd43 100644
--- a/scripts/gas_diff_stats.py
+++ b/scripts/gas_diff_stats.py
@@ -88,11 +88,11 @@ def collect_statistics(lines) -> (int, int, int, int, int, int):
     diff_kinds = [Diff.Minus, Diff.Plus]
     codegen_kinds = [Kind.IrOptimized, Kind.LegacyOptimized, Kind.Legacy]
     return tuple(
-        sum([
+        sum(
             val
             for (diff_kind, codegen_kind, val) in out
             if diff_kind == _diff_kind and codegen_kind == _codegen_kind
-        ])
+        )
         for _diff_kind in diff_kinds
         for _codegen_kind in codegen_kinds
     )
diff --git a/scripts/pylintrc b/scripts/pylintrc
index 02d529567..3a2b85293 100644
--- a/scripts/pylintrc
+++ b/scripts/pylintrc
@@ -17,7 +17,6 @@
 # TODO: What could be eliminated in future PRs: invalid-name, pointless-string-statement, redefined-outer-name.
 disable=
     bad-indentation,
-    bad-whitespace,
     duplicate-code,
     invalid-name,
     missing-docstring,