diff --git a/plug-ins/pygimp/plug-ins/colorxhtml.py b/plug-ins/pygimp/plug-ins/colorxhtml.py
index 6bf74de81a..686eef1471 100755
--- a/plug-ins/pygimp/plug-ins/colorxhtml.py
+++ b/plug-ins/pygimp/plug-ins/colorxhtml.py
@@ -90,7 +90,7 @@ def colorxhtml(img, drawable, filename, raw_filename,
     allchars = string.maketrans('', '')
 
     goodchars = string.digits + string.ascii_letters + string.punctuation
-    badchars = ''.join([c for c in allchars if c not in goodchars])
+    badchars = ''.join(c for c in allchars if c not in goodchars)
 
     chars = chars.translate(allchars, badchars)
 
diff --git a/plug-ins/pygimp/plug-ins/pyconsole.py b/plug-ins/pygimp/plug-ins/pyconsole.py
index 05df576b8b..199290bf8c 100644
--- a/plug-ins/pygimp/plug-ins/pyconsole.py
+++ b/plug-ins/pygimp/plug-ins/pyconsole.py
@@ -410,7 +410,7 @@ class _ReadLine(object):
         self.__insert(iter, "\n")
 
         width = max(self.__get_width(), 4)
-        max_width = max([len(s) for s in completions])
+        max_width = max(len(s) for s in completions)
         n_columns = max(int(width / (max_width + 1)), 1)
         col_width = int(width / n_columns)
         total = len(completions)
diff --git a/plug-ins/pygimp/plug-ins/python-console.py b/plug-ins/pygimp/plug-ins/python-console.py
index a8c7e4c4e7..f5c72217e4 100755
--- a/plug-ins/pygimp/plug-ins/python-console.py
+++ b/plug-ins/pygimp/plug-ins/python-console.py
@@ -128,8 +128,8 @@ def do_console():
             cmd = ''
 
             if len(proc.return_vals) > 0:
-                cmd = ', '.join([x[1].replace('-', '_')
-                                for x in proc.return_vals]) + ' = '
+                cmd = ', '.join(x[1].replace('-', '_')
+                                for x in proc.return_vals) + ' = '
 
             cmd = cmd + 'pdb.%s' % proc.proc_name.replace('-', '_')
 
@@ -138,8 +138,8 @@ def do_console():
             else:
                 params = proc.params
 
-            cmd = cmd + '(%s)' % ', '.join([x[1].replace('-', '_')
-                                           for x in params])
+            cmd = cmd + '(%s)' % ', '.join(x[1].replace('-', '_')
+                                           for x in params)
 
             buffer = self.cons.buffer