diff --git a/crm/load.py b/crm/load.py
index 442a5b2..187044b 100644
--- a/crm/load.py
+++ b/crm/load.py
@@ -75,10 +75,10 @@ def _identifier(uri_ref):
         delim = '#'
     else:
         delim = '/'
-    ident_parts = unicode(uri_ref).split(delim)[-1].split('_')
+    ident_parts = str(uri_ref).split(delim)[-1].split('_')
     # Can you think of a hackier way to do this? I can't.
     return ' '.join(ident_parts).title().replace(' ', '').replace('-', ''), \
-            '_'.join(ident_parts).replace('-', '_'), ident_parts[0]
+        '_'.join(ident_parts).replace('-', '_'), ident_parts[0]
 
 
 def import_schema(schema_url):
@@ -127,7 +127,7 @@ def import_schema(schema_url):
     # Build RDFClasses first, so that we can use them in the domain and range
     #  of RDFProperty instances.
     for class_ref in classes:
-        identifier, safe_name, code  = _identifier(class_ref)
+        identifier, safe_name, code = _identifier(class_ref)
 
         # We prefer to use the description, but comment is fine, too.
         comment = _get_object(g, class_ref, DESCRIPTION)
diff --git a/crm/models.py b/crm/models.py
index 9cd52cc..297fb05 100644
--- a/crm/models.py
+++ b/crm/models.py
@@ -57,7 +57,7 @@ def primary_label(self):
             _, cls = sorted(zip(map(lambda cls: len(cls.mro()),
                                     class_objs),
                                 class_objs),
-                            key=lambda (size, cls): size)[-1]
+                            key=lambda size, cls: size)[-1]
             return cls.__name__
 
 
@@ -107,7 +107,7 @@ def downcast(self, target_class=None):
                 _, cls = sorted(zip(map(lambda cls: len(cls.mro()),
                                         class_objs),
                                     class_objs),
-                                key=lambda (size, cls): size)[-1]
+                                key=lambda size, cls: size)[-1]
         else:    # Caller has specified a target class.
             if not isinstance(target_class, basestring):
                 # In the spirit of neomodel, we might as well support both