diff --git a/ietf/tests.py b/ietf/tests.py
index b3c1e54bc..f15ec2d6e 100644
--- a/ietf/tests.py
+++ b/ietf/tests.py
@@ -1,12 +1,10 @@
 import os
 import re
-import sys
 import traceback
 import urllib2 as urllib
 
 from ietf.utils import soup2text as html2text
 from difflib import unified_diff
-import textwrap
 
 import django.test.simple
 from django.test import TestCase
diff --git a/ietf/utils/soup2text.py b/ietf/utils/soup2text.py
index f0529d43b..309b66f07 100755
--- a/ietf/utils/soup2text.py
+++ b/ietf/utils/soup2text.py
@@ -48,7 +48,7 @@ def render(node, encoding='latin-1', pre=False):
                     else:
                         words.append(child.text)
         else:
-            raise ValueException("Unexpected node type: '%s'" % child)
+            raise ValueError("Unexpected node type: '%s'" % child)
     if words:
         blocks.append(para(words, node.pre))