diff --git a/.pylintrc b/.pylintrc
index 5e319a7564..0148db5544 100644
--- a/.pylintrc
+++ b/.pylintrc
@@ -19,9 +19,11 @@ profile=no
 # paths.
 ignore=CVS,tensorflow_serving
 
-# Add files or directories matching the regex patterns to the blacklist. The
-# regex matches against base names, not paths.
+# Add files or directories matching the regex patterns to the blacklist.
+# The regex matches against base names, not paths.
+# Regex patterns can be comma(and newline)-separated
 ignore-patterns=
+    .*_pb2.py, # Ignore all files generated by the protocol buffer compiler
 
 # Pickle collected data for later comparisons.
 persistent=yes
@@ -89,7 +91,6 @@ disable=
     useless-object-inheritance, # TODO: Remove unnecessary imports
     cyclic-import, # TODO: Resolve cyclic imports
     no-self-use, # TODO: Convert methods to functions where appropriate
-    consider-using-ternary, # TODO: Consider ternary expressions
     too-many-branches, # TODO: Simplify or ignore as appropriate
     missing-docstring, # TODO: Fix missing docstring
 
diff --git a/src/sagemaker/predictor.py b/src/sagemaker/predictor.py
index d2c4822289..d1ddba38a6 100644
--- a/src/sagemaker/predictor.py
+++ b/src/sagemaker/predictor.py
@@ -231,7 +231,9 @@ def _is_mutable_sequence_like(obj):
 
 def _is_sequence_like(obj):
     # Need to explicitly check on str since str lacks the iterable magic methods in Python 2
-    return (hasattr(obj, "__iter__") and hasattr(obj, "__getitem__")) or isinstance(obj, str)
+    return (  # pylint: disable=consider-using-ternary
+        hasattr(obj, "__iter__") and hasattr(obj, "__getitem__")
+    ) or isinstance(obj, str)
 
 
 def _row_to_csv(obj):