diff --git a/rpathology/api.py b/rpathology/api.py
index 6d2d883..82452d0 100644
--- a/rpathology/api.py
+++ b/rpathology/api.py
@@ -9,3 +9,9 @@
                         get_rpaths, set_rpaths)
 else:
     raise ImportError('This platform({}) is not supported!'.format(__sys_os))
+
+
+# Keep flake8 happy without telling it to ignore everything
+hushup_flake8 = [build_rpath, is_executable, get_missing_libraries, get_rpaths,
+                 set_rpaths]
+del hushup_flake8
diff --git a/rpathology/elf.py b/rpathology/elf.py
index 32c0ad0..350a4d9 100644
--- a/rpathology/elf.py
+++ b/rpathology/elf.py
@@ -7,10 +7,10 @@
 from elftools.elf.dynamic import DynamicSection
 from elftools.elf.elffile import ELFFile
 
-
 PY3K = sys.version_info > (3, 0)
 MISSING_LIB_REGEX = re.compile(r'.+(not found).+')
 
+
 def _bytes2str(b):
     if PY3K:
         return b.decode('utf-8')
@@ -68,7 +68,6 @@ def is_executable(path):
 def get_missing_libraries(path):
     """ Return a list of missing libraries for a given executable.
     """
-    shortpath = op.basename(path)
     if not is_executable(path):
         return []
 
diff --git a/rpathology/list.py b/rpathology/list.py
index d2aa2ad..e245908 100644
--- a/rpathology/list.py
+++ b/rpathology/list.py
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
 import os
 import os.path as op
 
-from .api import is_executable, get_missing_libraries
+from .api import get_missing_libraries
 
 
 def _show_misses(misses, root):