diff --git a/bin/zulip-send b/bin/zulip-send
index 16815dce..7144720b 100755
--- a/bin/zulip-send
+++ b/bin/zulip-send
@@ -42,7 +42,7 @@ def do_send_message(client, message_data):
     '''Sends a message and optionally prints status about the same.'''
 
     if message_data['type'] == 'stream':
-        log.info('Sending message to stream "%s", subject "%s"... ' % \
+        log.info('Sending message to stream "%s", subject "%s"... ' %
             (message_data['to'], message_data['subject']))
     else:
         log.info('Sending message to %s... ' % message_data['to'])
diff --git a/bots/check-mirroring b/bots/check-mirroring
index c4ec5c01..72b1aa19 100755
--- a/bots/check-mirroring
+++ b/bots/check-mirroring
@@ -328,11 +328,11 @@ for key in all_keys:
         continue
     if key in zhkeys:
         (stream, test) = zhkeys[key]
-        logger.warning("%10s: z got %s, h got %s.  Sent via Zephyr(%s): class %s" % \
+        logger.warning("%10s: z got %s, h got %s.  Sent via Zephyr(%s): class %s" %
             (key, z_key_counts[key], h_key_counts[key], test, stream))
     if key in hzkeys:
         (stream, test) = hzkeys[key]
-        logger.warning("%10s: z got %s. h got %s.  Sent via Zulip(%s): class %s" % \
+        logger.warning("%10s: z got %s. h got %s.  Sent via Zulip(%s): class %s" %
             (key, z_key_counts[key], h_key_counts[key], test, stream))
 logger.error("")
 logger.error("Summary of specific problems:")
diff --git a/bots/jabber_mirror_backend.py b/bots/jabber_mirror_backend.py
index 3a84b00a..683783f2 100755
--- a/bots/jabber_mirror_backend.py
+++ b/bots/jabber_mirror_backend.py
@@ -317,7 +317,7 @@ user and mirrors messages sent to Jabber rooms to Zulip.  Defaults to
     parser.add_option('--zulip-email-suffix',
                       default=None,
                       action='store',
-                      help= \
+                      help=
 '''Add the specified suffix to the local part of email addresses constructed
 from JIDs and nicks before sending requests to the Zulip server, and remove the
 suffix before sending requests to the Jabber server.  For example, specifying
diff --git a/integrations/asana/zulip_asana_mirror b/integrations/asana/zulip_asana_mirror
index b832d1a7..029de0a2 100755
--- a/integrations/asana/zulip_asana_mirror
+++ b/integrations/asana/zulip_asana_mirror
@@ -208,9 +208,9 @@ def process_new_events():
     """
     # In task queries, Asana only exposes IDs for projects and users, so we need
     # to look up the mappings.
-    projects = dict((elt["id"], elt["name"]) for elt in \
+    projects = dict((elt["id"], elt["name"]) for elt in
                     fetch_from_asana("/projects")["data"])
-    users = dict((elt["id"], elt["name"]) for elt in \
+    users = dict((elt["id"], elt["name"]) for elt in
                  fetch_from_asana("/users")["data"])
 
     cutoff = since()
diff --git a/zulip/__init__.py b/zulip/__init__.py
index ef3c0004..c85bba16 100644
--- a/zulip/__init__.py
+++ b/zulip/__init__.py
@@ -312,7 +312,7 @@ class Client(object):
                 return False
             if self.verbose:
                 if not query_state["had_error_retry"]:
-                    sys.stdout.write("zulip API(%s): connection error%s -- retrying." % \
+                    sys.stdout.write("zulip API(%s): connection error%s -- retrying." %
                             (url.split(API_VERSTRING, 2)[0], error_string,))
                     query_state["had_error_retry"] = True
                 else: