I don't think it is a pylint violation, actually -- I have my editor set up to flag issues caught by pep8 and pyflakes (although not pylint) and because my editor is running Python 3, the `print` keyword showed up as a violation. It's not really an issue since we're running Python 2, but using parentheses makes `print` work with both Python 2 and Python 3, so I try to always use them.