diff --git a/tools/hv/lsvmbus b/tools/hv/lsvmbus
index 55e7374bade0..099f2c44dbed 100644
--- a/tools/hv/lsvmbus
+++ b/tools/hv/lsvmbus
@@ -4,10 +4,10 @@
 import os
 from optparse import OptionParser
 
+help_msg = "print verbose messages. Try -vv, -vvv for  more verbose messages"
 parser = OptionParser()
-parser.add_option("-v", "--verbose", dest="verbose",
-		   help="print verbose messages. Try -vv, -vvv for \
-			more verbose messages", action="count")
+parser.add_option(
+	"-v", "--verbose", dest="verbose", help=help_msg, action="count")
 
 (options, args) = parser.parse_args()
 
@@ -21,27 +21,28 @@ if not os.path.isdir(vmbus_sys_path):
 	exit(-1)
 
 vmbus_dev_dict = {
-	'{0e0b6031-5213-4934-818b-38d90ced39db}' : '[Operating system shutdown]',
-	'{9527e630-d0ae-497b-adce-e80ab0175caf}' : '[Time Synchronization]',
-	'{57164f39-9115-4e78-ab55-382f3bd5422d}' : '[Heartbeat]',
-	'{a9a0f4e7-5a45-4d96-b827-8a841e8c03e6}' : '[Data Exchange]',
-	'{35fa2e29-ea23-4236-96ae-3a6ebacba440}' : '[Backup (volume checkpoint)]',
-	'{34d14be3-dee4-41c8-9ae7-6b174977c192}' : '[Guest services]',
-	'{525074dc-8985-46e2-8057-a307dc18a502}' : '[Dynamic Memory]',
-	'{cfa8b69e-5b4a-4cc0-b98b-8ba1a1f3f95a}' : 'Synthetic mouse',
-	'{f912ad6d-2b17-48ea-bd65-f927a61c7684}' : 'Synthetic keyboard',
-	'{da0a7802-e377-4aac-8e77-0558eb1073f8}' : 'Synthetic framebuffer adapter',
-	'{f8615163-df3e-46c5-913f-f2d2f965ed0e}' : 'Synthetic network adapter',
-	'{32412632-86cb-44a2-9b5c-50d1417354f5}' : 'Synthetic IDE Controller',
-	'{ba6163d9-04a1-4d29-b605-72e2ffb1dc7f}' : 'Synthetic SCSI Controller',
-	'{2f9bcc4a-0069-4af3-b76b-6fd0be528cda}' : 'Synthetic fiber channel adapter',
-	'{8c2eaf3d-32a7-4b09-ab99-bd1f1c86b501}' : 'Synthetic RDMA adapter',
-	'{44c4f61d-4444-4400-9d52-802e27ede19f}' : 'PCI Express pass-through',
-	'{276aacf4-ac15-426c-98dd-7521ad3f01fe}' : '[Reserved system device]',
-	'{f8e65716-3cb3-4a06-9a60-1889c5cccab5}' : '[Reserved system device]',
-	'{3375baf4-9e15-4b30-b765-67acb10d607b}' : '[Reserved system device]',
+	'{0e0b6031-5213-4934-818b-38d90ced39db}': '[Operating system shutdown]',
+	'{9527e630-d0ae-497b-adce-e80ab0175caf}': '[Time Synchronization]',
+	'{57164f39-9115-4e78-ab55-382f3bd5422d}': '[Heartbeat]',
+	'{a9a0f4e7-5a45-4d96-b827-8a841e8c03e6}': '[Data Exchange]',
+	'{35fa2e29-ea23-4236-96ae-3a6ebacba440}': '[Backup (volume checkpoint)]',
+	'{34d14be3-dee4-41c8-9ae7-6b174977c192}': '[Guest services]',
+	'{525074dc-8985-46e2-8057-a307dc18a502}': '[Dynamic Memory]',
+	'{cfa8b69e-5b4a-4cc0-b98b-8ba1a1f3f95a}': 'Synthetic mouse',
+	'{f912ad6d-2b17-48ea-bd65-f927a61c7684}': 'Synthetic keyboard',
+	'{da0a7802-e377-4aac-8e77-0558eb1073f8}': 'Synthetic framebuffer adapter',
+	'{f8615163-df3e-46c5-913f-f2d2f965ed0e}': 'Synthetic network adapter',
+	'{32412632-86cb-44a2-9b5c-50d1417354f5}': 'Synthetic IDE Controller',
+	'{ba6163d9-04a1-4d29-b605-72e2ffb1dc7f}': 'Synthetic SCSI Controller',
+	'{2f9bcc4a-0069-4af3-b76b-6fd0be528cda}': 'Synthetic fiber channel adapter',
+	'{8c2eaf3d-32a7-4b09-ab99-bd1f1c86b501}': 'Synthetic RDMA adapter',
+	'{44c4f61d-4444-4400-9d52-802e27ede19f}': 'PCI Express pass-through',
+	'{276aacf4-ac15-426c-98dd-7521ad3f01fe}': '[Reserved system device]',
+	'{f8e65716-3cb3-4a06-9a60-1889c5cccab5}': '[Reserved system device]',
+	'{3375baf4-9e15-4b30-b765-67acb10d607b}': '[Reserved system device]',
 }
 
+
 def get_vmbus_dev_attr(dev_name, attr):
 	try:
 		f = open('%s/%s/%s' % (vmbus_sys_path, dev_name, attr), 'r')
@@ -52,6 +53,7 @@ def get_vmbus_dev_attr(dev_name, attr):
 
 	return lines
 
+
 class VMBus_Dev:
 	pass
 
@@ -66,12 +68,13 @@ for f in os.listdir(vmbus_sys_path):
 
 	chn_vp_mapping = get_vmbus_dev_attr(f, 'channel_vp_mapping')
 	chn_vp_mapping = [c.strip() for c in chn_vp_mapping]
-	chn_vp_mapping = sorted(chn_vp_mapping,
-		key = lambda c : int(c.split(':')[0]))
+	chn_vp_mapping = sorted(
+		chn_vp_mapping, key=lambda c: int(c.split(':')[0]))
 
-	chn_vp_mapping = ['\tRel_ID=%s, target_cpu=%s' %
-				(c.split(':')[0], c.split(':')[1])
-					for c in chn_vp_mapping]
+	chn_vp_mapping = [
+		'\tRel_ID=%s, target_cpu=%s' %
+		(c.split(':')[0], c.split(':')[1]) for c in chn_vp_mapping
+	]
 	d = VMBus_Dev()
 	d.sysfs_path = '%s/%s' % (vmbus_sys_path, f)
 	d.vmbus_id = vmbus_id
@@ -85,7 +88,7 @@ for f in os.listdir(vmbus_sys_path):
 	vmbus_dev_list.append(d)
 
 
-vmbus_dev_list  = sorted(vmbus_dev_list, key = lambda d : int(d.vmbus_id))
+vmbus_dev_list = sorted(vmbus_dev_list, key=lambda d: int(d.vmbus_id))
 
 format0 = '%2s: %s'
 format1 = '%2s: Class_ID = %s - %s\n%s'
@@ -95,9 +98,15 @@ for d in vmbus_dev_list:
 	if verbose == 0:
 		print(('VMBUS ID ' + format0) % (d.vmbus_id, d.dev_desc))
 	elif verbose == 1:
-		print (('VMBUS ID ' + format1) %	\
-			(d.vmbus_id, d.class_id, d.dev_desc, d.chn_vp_mapping))
+		print(
+			('VMBUS ID ' + format1) %
+			(d.vmbus_id, d.class_id, d.dev_desc, d.chn_vp_mapping)
+		)
 	else:
-		print (('VMBUS ID ' + format2) % \
-			(d.vmbus_id, d.class_id, d.dev_desc, \
-			d.device_id, d.sysfs_path, d.chn_vp_mapping))
+		print(
+			('VMBUS ID ' + format2) %
+			(
+				d.vmbus_id, d.class_id, d.dev_desc,
+				d.device_id, d.sysfs_path, d.chn_vp_mapping
+			)
+		)