diff --git a/lbry/.pylintrc b/lbry/.pylintrc
index 83aaa46f6..cdd8367bc 100644
--- a/lbry/.pylintrc
+++ b/lbry/.pylintrc
@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@ unsafe-load-any-extension=no
 # A comma-separated list of package or module names from where C extensions may
 # be loaded. Extensions are loading into the active Python interpreter and may
 # run arbitrary code
-# extension-pkg-whitelist=
+extension-pkg-whitelist=apsw
 
 # Allow optimization of some AST trees. This will activate a peephole AST
 # optimizer, which will apply various small optimizations. For instance, it can