diff --git a/08-kick-your-teammate-forward/tf-08.py b/08-kick-your-teammate-forward/tf-08.py
index bd06173..a96bf50 100755
--- a/08-kick-your-teammate-forward/tf-08.py
+++ b/08-kick-your-teammate-forward/tf-08.py
@@ -1,55 +1,32 @@
 #!/usr/bin/env python
-
 import sys, re, operator, string
 
 #
 # The functions
 #
 def read_file(path_to_file, func):
-    """
-    Takes a path to a file and returns the entire
-    contents of the file as a string
-    """
-    f = open(path_to_file)
-    data = f.read()
-    f.close()
+    with  open(path_to_file) as f:
+        data = f.read()
     return func(data, normalize)
 
 def filter_chars(str_data, func):
-    """
-    Takes a string and returns a copy with all nonalphanumeric chars
-    replaced by white space
-    """
     pattern = re.compile('[\W_]+')
     return func(pattern.sub(' ', str_data), scan)
 
 def normalize(str_data, func):
-    """
-    Takes a string and returns a copy with all characters in lower case
-    """
     return func(str_data.lower(), remove_stop_words)
 
 def scan(str_data, func):
-    """
-    Takes a string and scans for words, returning
-    a list of words.
-    """
     return func(str_data.split(), frequencies)
 
 def remove_stop_words(word_list, func):
-    """ Takes a list of words and returns a copy with all stop words removed """
-    f = open('../stop_words.txt')
-    stop_words = f.read().split(',')
-    f.close()
+    with open('../stop_words.txt') as f:
+        stop_words = f.read().split(',')
     # add single-letter words
     stop_words.extend(list(string.ascii_lowercase))
     return func([w for w in word_list if not w in stop_words], sort)
 
 def frequencies(word_list, func):
-    """
-    Takes a list of words and returns a dictionary associating
-    words with frequencies of occurrence
-    """
     word_freqs = {}
     for w in word_list:
         if w in word_freqs:
@@ -59,11 +36,6 @@ def frequencies(word_list, func):
     return func(word_freqs, no_op)
 
 def sort(word_freq, func):
-    """
-    Takes a dictionary of words and their frequencies
-    and returns a list of pairs where the entries are
-    sorted by frequency 
-    """
     return func(sorted(word_freq.iteritems(), key=operator.itemgetter(1), reverse=True), None)
 
 def no_op(a, func):
@@ -74,6 +46,6 @@ def no_op(a, func):
 #
 word_freqs = read_file(sys.argv[1], filter_chars)
 
-for tf in word_freqs[0:25]:
-    print tf[0], ' - ', tf[1]
+for (w, c) in word_freqs[0:25]:
+    print w, ' - ', c