diff --git a/nova/service.py b/nova/service.py
index 0eb3a2762b3b..9454d4049bd7 100644
--- a/nova/service.py
+++ b/nova/service.py
@@ -19,7 +19,8 @@
 """
 A service is a very thin wrapper around a Manager object.  It exposes the
 manager's public methods to other components of the system via rpc.  It will
-report state periodically to the database and is responsible for initiating any periodic tasts that need to be executed on a given host.
+report state periodically to the database and is responsible for initiating
+any periodic tasts that need to be executed on a given host.
 
 This module contains Service, a generic baseclass for all workers.
 """
diff --git a/nova/utils.py b/nova/utils.py
index d7ebe5b4c705..1207f52a46fd 100644
--- a/nova/utils.py
+++ b/nova/utils.py
@@ -234,6 +234,7 @@ def utf8(value):
     assert isinstance(value, str)
     return value
 
+
 def fix_wsgify_docstr(wsgified_func):
     """A decorator to re-assign docstrings that webob.dec.wsgify clobbers."""
     @functools.wraps(wsgified_func.func)