pep8 fixes

Another set of pep8 fixes
This is hideous either way.  Where is this even used?

The original does scan better, but on the other hand, this is something I would only read with heavy use of search anyway.

I am also sympathetic to @dopplershift 's comments about the risk of adding bugs into rarely touched code due to pure-style changes and am weakly leaning towards this block being left as is.