diff --git a/jellyfish/_jellyfish.py b/jellyfish/_jellyfish.py
index fd24a7a..8d44bb9 100644
--- a/jellyfish/_jellyfish.py
+++ b/jellyfish/_jellyfish.py
@@ -7,13 +7,14 @@ from .porter import Stemmer
 def _normalize(s):
     return unicodedata.normalize('NFKD', s)
 
-def _check_type(s):
 
+def _check_type(s):
     if IS_PY3 and not isinstance(s, str):
         raise TypeError('expected str or unicode, got %s' % type(s).__name__)
     elif not IS_PY3 and not isinstance(s, unicode):
         raise TypeError('expected unicode, got %s' % type(s).__name__)
 
+
 def levenshtein_distance(s1, s2):
     _check_type(s1)
     _check_type(s2)
@@ -311,7 +312,7 @@ def nysiis(s):
 
 def match_rating_codex(s):
     _check_type(s)
-    
+
     s = s.upper()
     codex = []
 
diff --git a/jellyfish/test.py b/jellyfish/test.py
index 72ef934..dea87c2 100644
--- a/jellyfish/test.py
+++ b/jellyfish/test.py
@@ -112,7 +112,6 @@ if platform.python_implementation() == 'CPython':
         # this segfaulted on 0.1.2
         assert [[jf.match_rating_comparison(h1, h2) for h1 in sha1s] for h2 in sha1s]
 
-
     def test_damerau_levenshtein_unicode_segfault():
         # unfortunate difference in behavior between Py & C versions
         from jellyfish.cjellyfish import damerau_levenshtein_distance as c_dl