diff --git a/.pylintrc b/.pylintrc
index 31ac9259b..423066a38 100644
--- a/.pylintrc
+++ b/.pylintrc
@@ -12,6 +12,7 @@ enable=
     bad-indentation,
     bare-except,
     compare-to-zero,
+    consider-iterating-dictionary,
     dangerous-default-value,
     deprecated-lambda,
     len-as-condition,
diff --git a/mesonbuild/backend/xcodebackend.py b/mesonbuild/backend/xcodebackend.py
index 01053c185..b1a89567d 100644
--- a/mesonbuild/backend/xcodebackend.py
+++ b/mesonbuild/backend/xcodebackend.py
@@ -1282,7 +1282,7 @@ class XCodeBackend(backends.Backend):
 
 
     def generate_pbx_sources_build_phase(self, objects_dict):
-        for name in self.source_phase.keys():
+        for name in self.source_phase:
             phase_dict = PbxDict()
             t = self.build_targets[name]
             objects_dict.add_item(t.buildphasemap[name], phase_dict, 'Sources')
diff --git a/mesonbuild/mparser.py b/mesonbuild/mparser.py
index 10796827c..1617dd1fa 100644
--- a/mesonbuild/mparser.py
+++ b/mesonbuild/mparser.py
@@ -324,7 +324,7 @@ class ArgumentNode(BaseNode):
             self.arguments += [statement]
 
     def set_kwarg(self, name: IdNode, value: BaseNode) -> None:
-        if name.value in [x.value for x in self.kwargs.keys() if isinstance(x, IdNode)]:
+        if any((isinstance(x, IdNode) and name.value == x.value) for x in self.kwargs):
             mlog.warning(f'Keyword argument "{name.value}" defined multiple times.', location=self)
             mlog.warning('This will be an error in future Meson releases.')
         self.kwargs[name] = value