diff --git a/nwb_linkml/src/nwb_linkml/adapters/namespaces.py b/nwb_linkml/src/nwb_linkml/adapters/namespaces.py
index 326da7c..70e6f89 100644
--- a/nwb_linkml/src/nwb_linkml/adapters/namespaces.py
+++ b/nwb_linkml/src/nwb_linkml/adapters/namespaces.py
@@ -224,7 +224,7 @@ class NamespacesAdapter(Adapter):
 
         return parents
 
-    def _overwrite_class(self, new_cls: Dataset | Group, old_cls: Dataset | Group):
+    def _overwrite_class(self, new_cls: Dataset | Group, old_cls: Dataset | Group) -> None:
         """
         Overwrite the version of a dataset or group that is stored in our schemas
         """
@@ -264,9 +264,14 @@ class NamespacesAdapter(Adapter):
         matches = []
         for schema in self.all_schemas():
             in_schema = False
-            if isinstance(cls, str) and cls in [
-                c.neurodata_type_def for c in schema.created_classes
-            ] or isinstance(cls, Dataset) and cls in schema.datasets or isinstance(cls, Group) and cls in schema.groups:
+            if (
+                isinstance(cls, str)
+                and cls in [c.neurodata_type_def for c in schema.created_classes]
+                or isinstance(cls, Dataset)
+                and cls in schema.datasets
+                or isinstance(cls, Group)
+                and cls in schema.groups
+            ):
                 in_schema = True
 
             if in_schema:
diff --git a/nwb_schema_language/src/nwb_schema_language/util.py b/nwb_schema_language/src/nwb_schema_language/util.py
index 61bc5ed..ef910a8 100644
--- a/nwb_schema_language/src/nwb_schema_language/util.py
+++ b/nwb_schema_language/src/nwb_schema_language/util.py
@@ -1,27 +1,37 @@
-from pprint import pformat as _pformat
-import textwrap
+"""
+The fabled junk drawer
+"""
+
 import re
+import textwrap
+from pprint import pformat as _pformat
 
 
 def pformat(fields: dict, cls_name: str, indent: str = "  ") -> str:
     """
-    pretty format the fields of the items of a ``YAMLRoot`` object without the wonky indentation of pformat.
-    see ``YAMLRoot.__repr__``.
+    pretty format the fields of the items of a ``YAMLRoot`` object without the
+    wonky indentation of pformat.
 
-    formatting is similar to black - items at similar levels of nesting have similar levels of indentation,
-    rather than getting placed at essentially random levels of indentation depending on what came before them.
+    formatting is similar to black -
+    items at similar levels of nesting have similar levels of indentation,
+    rather than getting placed at essentially random levels of indentation
+    depending on what came before them.
     """
     res = []
     total_len = 0
     for key, val in fields.items():
         if val == [] or val == {} or val is None:
             continue
-        # pformat handles everything else that isn't a YAMLRoot object, but it sure does look ugly
-        # use it to split lines and as the thing of last resort, but otherwise indent = 0, we'll do that
+        # pformat handles everything else that isn't a YAMLRoot object,
+        # but it sure does look ugly
+        # use it to split lines and as the thing of last resort,
+        # but otherwise indent = 0, we'll do that
         val_str = _pformat(val, indent=0, compact=True, sort_dicts=False)
-        # now we indent everything except the first line by indenting and then using regex to remove just the first indent
+        # now we indent everything except the first line by indenting
+        # and then using regex to remove just the first indent
         val_str = re.sub(rf"\A{re.escape(indent)}", "", textwrap.indent(val_str, indent))
-        # now recombine with the key in a format that can be re-eval'd into an object if indent is just whitespace
+        # now recombine with the key in a format that can be re-eval'd
+        # into an object if indent is just whitespace
         val_str = f"'{key}': " + val_str
 
         # count the total length of this string so we know if we need to linebreak or not later