CLN: assorted cleanups
Hello @jbrockmendel! Thanks for updating this PR. We checked the lines you've touched for [PEP 8](https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0008) issues, and found:

















There are currently no PEP 8 issues detected in this Pull Request. Cheers! :beers: 

##### Comment last updated at 2019-12-26 00:10:11 UTC lgtm. ping on green. ping thanks