diff --git a/compressor/parser/__init__.py b/compressor/parser/__init__.py
index ba45d25..bc8c18c 100644
--- a/compressor/parser/__init__.py
+++ b/compressor/parser/__init__.py
@@ -2,18 +2,19 @@ from django.utils.functional import LazyObject
 from django.utils.importlib import import_module
 
 # support legacy parser module usage
-from compressor.parser.base import ParserBase
+from compressor.parser.base import ParserBase  # noqa
 from compressor.parser.lxml import LxmlParser
 from compressor.parser.default_htmlparser import DefaultHtmlParser as HtmlParser
-from compressor.parser.beautifulsoup import BeautifulSoupParser
-from compressor.parser.html5lib import Html5LibParser
+from compressor.parser.beautifulsoup import BeautifulSoupParser  # noqa
+from compressor.parser.html5lib import Html5LibParser  # noqa
 
 
 class AutoSelectParser(LazyObject):
     options = (
-        ('lxml.html', LxmlParser),  # lxml, extremely fast
-        ('HTMLParser', HtmlParser), # fast and part of the Python stdlib
+        ('lxml.html', LxmlParser),   # lxml, extremely fast
+        ('HTMLParser', HtmlParser),  # fast and part of the Python stdlib
     )
+
     def __init__(self, content):
         self._wrapped = None
         self._setup(content)
diff --git a/compressor/parser/default_htmlparser.py b/compressor/parser/default_htmlparser.py
index ff82408..6e3928e 100644
--- a/compressor/parser/default_htmlparser.py
+++ b/compressor/parser/default_htmlparser.py
@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@ from django.utils.encoding import smart_unicode
 from compressor.exceptions import ParserError
 from compressor.parser import ParserBase
 
+
 class DefaultHtmlParser(ParserBase, HTMLParser):
 
     def __init__(self, content):
diff --git a/compressor/templatetags/compress.py b/compressor/templatetags/compress.py
index 978c191..9c9b46b 100644
--- a/compressor/templatetags/compress.py
+++ b/compressor/templatetags/compress.py
@@ -109,7 +109,7 @@ class CompressorMixin(object):
             if cache_key:
                 cache_set(cache_key, rendered_output)
             return rendered_output
-        except Exception, e:
+        except Exception:
             if settings.DEBUG or forced:
                 raise
 
diff --git a/compressor/tests/precompiler.py b/compressor/tests/precompiler.py
index e62a4b4..4c01964 100644
--- a/compressor/tests/precompiler.py
+++ b/compressor/tests/precompiler.py
@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@ from __future__ import with_statement
 import optparse
 import sys
 
+
 def main():
     p = optparse.OptionParser()
     p.add_option('-f', '--file', action="store",
diff --git a/compressor/tests/test_base.py b/compressor/tests/test_base.py
index 5982c05..7a76f58 100644
--- a/compressor/tests/test_base.py
+++ b/compressor/tests/test_base.py
@@ -158,22 +158,22 @@ class CssMediaTestCase(TestCase):
         self.assertEqual(media, [l.get('media', None) for l in links])
 
     def test_passthough_when_compress_disabled(self):
-    	original_precompilers = settings.COMPRESS_PRECOMPILERS
+        original_precompilers = settings.COMPRESS_PRECOMPILERS
         settings.COMPRESS_ENABLED = False
         settings.COMPRESS_PRECOMPILERS = (
-   			 ('text/foobar', 'python %s {infile} {outfile}' % os.path.join(test_dir, 'precompiler.py')),
-		)
+            ('text/foobar', 'python %s {infile} {outfile}' % os.path.join(test_dir, 'precompiler.py')),
+        )
         css = """\
 <link rel="stylesheet" href="/media/css/one.css" type="text/css" media="screen">
 <link rel="stylesheet" href="/media/css/two.css" type="text/css" media="screen">
 <style type="text/foobar" media="screen">h1 { border:5px solid green;}</style>"""
         css_node = CssCompressor(css)
-        output = BeautifulSoup(css_node.output()).findAll(['link','style'])
-        self.assertEqual([u'/media/css/one.css', u'/media/css/two.css', None], 
+        output = BeautifulSoup(css_node.output()).findAll(['link', 'style'])
+        self.assertEqual([u'/media/css/one.css', u'/media/css/two.css', None],
                          [l.get('href', None) for l in output])
-        self.assertEqual([u'screen', u'screen', u'screen'], 
+        self.assertEqual([u'screen', u'screen', u'screen'],
                          [l.get('media', None) for l in output])
-    	settings.COMPRESS_PRECOMPILERS = original_precompilers
+        settings.COMPRESS_PRECOMPILERS = original_precompilers
 
 
 class VerboseTestCase(CompressorTestCase):
diff --git a/compressor/tests/test_offline.py b/compressor/tests/test_offline.py
index 8c324a2..eec888a 100644
--- a/compressor/tests/test_offline.py
+++ b/compressor/tests/test_offline.py
@@ -117,7 +117,8 @@ class OfflineGenerationStaticTemplateTagTestCase(OfflineTestCaseMixin, TestCase)
     expected_hash = "dfa2bb387fa8"
 # This test uses {% static %} which was introduced in django 1.4
 OfflineGenerationStaticTemplateTagTestCase = skipIf(
-    django.VERSION[1] < 4, 'Django 1.4 not found') (OfflineGenerationStaticTemplateTagTestCase)
+    django.VERSION[1] < 4, 'Django 1.4 not found'
+)(OfflineGenerationStaticTemplateTagTestCase)
 
 
 class OfflineGenerationTestCaseWithContext(OfflineTestCaseMixin, TestCase):
diff --git a/compressor/tests/test_parsers.py b/compressor/tests/test_parsers.py
index a418fc4..6d0e658 100644
--- a/compressor/tests/test_parsers.py
+++ b/compressor/tests/test_parsers.py
@@ -84,4 +84,3 @@ BeautifulSoupParserTests = skipIf(
 
 class HtmlParserTests(ParserTestCase, CompressorTestCase):
     parser_cls = 'compressor.parser.HtmlParser'
-
diff --git a/compressor/tests/test_signals.py b/compressor/tests/test_signals.py
index c9801d7..529d0b0 100644
--- a/compressor/tests/test_signals.py
+++ b/compressor/tests/test_signals.py
@@ -59,6 +59,7 @@ class PostCompressSignalTestCase(TestCase):
 <style type="text/css" media="print">p { border:5px solid green;}</style>
 <link rel="stylesheet" href="/media/css/two.css" type="text/css" />"""
         css_node = CssCompressor(css)
+
         def listener(sender, **kwargs):
             pass
         callback = Mock(wraps=listener)
diff --git a/compressor/tests/test_templatetags.py b/compressor/tests/test_templatetags.py
index 01165b1..bafc521 100644
--- a/compressor/tests/test_templatetags.py
+++ b/compressor/tests/test_templatetags.py
@@ -106,8 +106,10 @@ class TemplatetagTestCase(TestCase):
         <script type="text/javascript">obj.value = "value";</script>
         {% endcompress %}
         """
+
         class MockDebugRequest(object):
             GET = {settings.COMPRESS_DEBUG_TOGGLE: 'true'}
+
         context = dict(self.context, request=MockDebugRequest())
         out = u"""<script src="/media/js/one.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
         <script type="text/javascript">obj.value = "value";</script>"""
@@ -118,6 +120,7 @@ class TemplatetagTestCase(TestCase):
         <script type="text/javascript">obj.value = "value";</script>
         {% endcompress %}
         """
+
         def listener(sender, **kwargs):
             pass
         callback = Mock(wraps=listener)
@@ -219,7 +222,7 @@ class PrecompilerTemplatetagTestCase(TestCase):
             out = '\n'.join([
                     script(src="/media/CACHE/js/one.95cfb869eead.js"),
                     script(scripttype="", src="/media/js/one.js"),
-                    script(src="/media/CACHE/js/one.81a2cd965815.js"),])
+                    script(src="/media/CACHE/js/one.81a2cd965815.js")])
 
             self.assertEqual(out, render(template, self.context))
         finally:
@@ -264,6 +267,7 @@ class PrecompilerTemplatetagTestCase(TestCase):
         finally:
             settings.COMPRESS_ENABLED = self.old_enabled
 
+
 def script(content="", src="", scripttype="text/javascript"):
     """
     returns a unicode text html script element.
diff --git a/compressor/utils/__init__.py b/compressor/utils/__init__.py
index 9212134..8aec054 100644
--- a/compressor/utils/__init__.py
+++ b/compressor/utils/__init__.py
@@ -70,6 +70,7 @@ def get_pathext(default_pathext=None):
         default_pathext = os.pathsep.join(['.COM', '.EXE', '.BAT', '.CMD'])
     return os.environ.get('PATHEXT', default_pathext)
 
+
 def find_command(cmd, paths=None, pathext=None):
     """
     Searches the PATH for the given command and returns its path
diff --git a/compressor/utils/staticfiles.py b/compressor/utils/staticfiles.py
index 838d976..169d427 100644
--- a/compressor/utils/staticfiles.py
+++ b/compressor/utils/staticfiles.py
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ if INSTALLED:
         from django.contrib.staticfiles import finders
     else:
         try:
-            from staticfiles import finders
+            from staticfiles import finders  # noqa
         except ImportError:
             # Old (pre 1.0) and incompatible version of staticfiles
             INSTALLED = False
@@ -24,4 +24,4 @@ if INSTALLED:
             "please add 'compressor.finders.CompressorFinder' to the "
             "STATICFILES_FINDERS setting.")
 else:
-    finders = None
+    finders = None  # noqa
diff --git a/compressor/utils/stringformat.py b/compressor/utils/stringformat.py
index 9c797b6..f5f5eb5 100644
--- a/compressor/utils/stringformat.py
+++ b/compressor/utils/stringformat.py
@@ -8,17 +8,6 @@ Author: Florent Xicluna
 
 import re
 
-if hasattr(str, 'partition'):
-    def partition(s, sep):
-        return s.partition(sep)
-else:   # Python 2.4
-    def partition(s, sep):
-        try:
-            left, right = s.split(sep, 1)
-        except ValueError:
-            return s, '', ''
-        return left, sep, right
-
 _format_str_re = re.compile(
     r'((?<!{)(?:{{)+'                       # '{{'
     r'|(?:}})+(?!})'                        # '}}
@@ -190,8 +179,8 @@ class FormattableString(object):
             assert part == part[0] * len(part)
             return part[:len(part) // 2]
         repl = part[1:-1]
-        field, _, format_spec = partition(repl, ':')
-        literal, sep, conversion = partition(field, '!')
+        field, _, format_spec = repl.partition(':')
+        literal, sep, conversion = field.partition('!')
         if sep and not conversion:
             raise ValueError("end of format while looking for "
                              "conversion specifier")