diff --git a/cfg_checker/common/salt_utils.py b/cfg_checker/common/salt_utils.py
index b913531..8b1b47f 100644
--- a/cfg_checker/common/salt_utils.py
+++ b/cfg_checker/common/salt_utils.py
@@ -3,12 +3,13 @@
 """
 import json
 import os
-import requests
 import time
 
-from cfg_checker.common import logger, logger_cli, config
+from cfg_checker.common import config, logger, logger_cli
+from cfg_checker.common.exception import InvalidReturnException, SaltException
 from cfg_checker.common.other import shell
-from cfg_checker.common.exception import SaltException, InvalidReturnException
+
+import requests
 
 
 def _extract_password(_raw):
@@ -17,11 +18,11 @@
     else:
         try:
             _json = json.loads(_raw)
-        except ValueError as e:
+        except ValueError:
             raise SaltException(
                 "# Return value is not a json: '{}'".format(_raw)
             )
-    
+
     return _json["local"]
 
 
@@ -41,7 +42,7 @@
         _ssh_cmd.append(config.ssh_host)
     if config.ssh_uses_sudo:
         _ssh_cmd.append("sudo")
-    
+
     _ssh_cmd.append(_salt_cmd)
     _ssh_cmd = " ".join(_ssh_cmd)
     logger_cli.debug("...calling salt: '{}'".format(_ssh_cmd))
@@ -53,6 +54,7 @@
     else:
         return _extract_password(_result)
 
+
 def get_local_password():
     """Calls salt locally to get password from the pillar
 
@@ -86,7 +88,13 @@
         self._token = self._login()
         self.last_response = None
 
-    def get(self, path='', headers=default_headers, cookies=None, timeout=None):
+    def get(
+        self,
+        path='',
+        headers=default_headers,
+        cookies=None,
+        timeout=None
+    ):
         _path = os.path.join(self.uri, path)
         logger.debug("# GET '{}'\nHeaders: '{}'\nCookies: {}".format(
             _path,
@@ -108,12 +116,14 @@
             _data = str(data).replace(self._pass, "*****")
         else:
             _data = data
-        logger.debug("# POST '{}'\nHeaders: '{}'\nCookies: {}\nBody: {}".format(
-            _path,
-            headers,
-            cookies,
-            _data
-        ))
+        logger.debug(
+            "# POST '{}'\nHeaders: '{}'\nCookies: {}\nBody: {}".format(
+                _path,
+                headers,
+                cookies,
+                _data
+            )
+        )
         return requests.post(
             os.path.join(self.uri, path),
             headers=headers,
@@ -289,7 +299,7 @@
         """
         try:
             _r = self.salt_request('get', 'minions', timeout=10)
-        except requests.exceptions.ReadTimeout as e:
+        except requests.exceptions.ReadTimeout:
             logger_cli.debug("... timeout waiting list minions from Salt API")
             _r = None
         return _r[0] if _r else None
@@ -322,7 +332,7 @@
 
     def get_active_nodes(self):
         """Used when other minion list metods fail
-        
+
         :return: json result from salt test.ping
         """
         if config.skip_nodes:
@@ -336,7 +346,7 @@
                 expr_form='compound')
         else:
             _r = self.cmd('*', 'test.ping')
-        # Return all nodes that responded            
+        # Return all nodes that responded
         return [node for node in _r.keys() if _r[node]]
 
     def get_monitoring_ip(self, param_name):
@@ -391,7 +401,7 @@
         """
         REST variation of file.get_managed
         CLI execution goes like this (10 agrs):
-        salt cfg01\* file.manage_file /root/test_scripts/pkg_versions.py
+        salt cfg01\\* file.manage_file /root/test_scripts/pkg_versions.py
         '' '{}' /root/diff_pkg_version.py
         '{hash_type: 'md5', 'hsum': <md5sum>}' root root '755' base ''
         makedirs=True