diff --git a/embedchain/config/InitConfig.py b/embedchain/config/InitConfig.py
index 5fa9b032..9bcaeb90 100644
--- a/embedchain/config/InitConfig.py
+++ b/embedchain/config/InitConfig.py
@@ -33,4 +33,4 @@ class InitConfig(BaseConfig):
 
     def _set_embedding_function(self, ef):
         self.ef = ef
-        return        
+        return
diff --git a/embedchain/utils.py b/embedchain/utils.py
index b6337147..d7a89301 100644
--- a/embedchain/utils.py
+++ b/embedchain/utils.py
@@ -13,21 +13,20 @@ def clean_string(text):
     """
     # Replacement of newline characters:
     text = text.replace('\n', ' ')
-    
+
     # Stripping and reducing multiple spaces to single:
     cleaned_text = re.sub(r'\s+', ' ', text.strip())
-    
+
     # Removing backslashes:
     cleaned_text = cleaned_text.replace('\\', '')
-    
+
     # Replacing hash characters:
     cleaned_text = cleaned_text.replace('#', ' ')
-    
+
     # Eliminating consecutive non-alphanumeric characters:
     # This regex identifies consecutive non-alphanumeric characters (i.e., not a word character [a-zA-Z0-9_] and not a whitespace) in the string 
     # and replaces each group of such characters with a single occurrence of that character. 
     # For example, "!!! hello !!!" would become "! hello !".
     cleaned_text = re.sub(r'([^\w\s])\1*', r'\1', cleaned_text)
-    
-    return cleaned_text
 
+    return cleaned_text