diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 0ffe9757..1e38a147 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -15,3 +15,4 @@ platform_linux.c
 *.pyo
 *.so
 docs/usage/*.inc
+.idea/
diff --git a/attic/_version.py b/attic/_version.py
index adcaf93b..bb5f6079 100644
--- a/attic/_version.py
+++ b/attic/_version.py
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 
 IN_LONG_VERSION_PY = True
 # This file helps to compute a version number in source trees obtained from
-# git-archive tarball (such as those provided by githubs download-from-tag
+# git-archive tarball (such as those provided by github's download-from-tag
 # feature). Distribution tarballs (build by setup.py sdist) and build
 # directories (produced by setup.py build) will contain a much shorter file
 # that just contains the computed version number.
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ git_full = "$Format:%H$"
 
 
 import subprocess
-import sys
+
 
 def run_command(args, cwd=None, verbose=False):
     try:
diff --git a/attic/helpers.py b/attic/helpers.py
index 9fadbd1d..2b94fb4b 100644
--- a/attic/helpers.py
+++ b/attic/helpers.py
@@ -5,7 +5,6 @@ import msgpack
 import os
 import pwd
 import re
-import stat
 import sys
 import time
 from datetime import datetime, timezone, timedelta
@@ -481,7 +480,7 @@ def write_msgpack(filename, d):
     with open(filename + '.tmp', 'wb') as fd:
         msgpack.pack(d, fd)
         fd.flush()
-        os.fsync(fd)
+        os.fsync(fd.fileno())
     os.rename(filename + '.tmp', filename)
 
 
diff --git a/attic/repository.py b/attic/repository.py
index eed85dc4..d2905727 100644
--- a/attic/repository.py
+++ b/attic/repository.py
@@ -3,7 +3,6 @@ from binascii import hexlify
 from itertools import islice
 import errno
 import os
-import shutil
 import struct
 import sys
 from zlib import crc32
@@ -42,7 +41,7 @@ class Repository(object):
         """{} is not a valid repository"""
 
     class CheckNeeded(Error):
-        '''Inconsistency detected. Please run "attic check {}"'''
+        """Inconsistency detected. Please run "attic check {}"."""
 
     class ObjectNotFound(Error):
         """Object with key {} not found in repository {}"""
@@ -80,9 +79,9 @@ class Repository(object):
             config.write(fd)
 
     def get_index_transaction_id(self):
-        indicies = sorted((int(name[6:]) for name in os.listdir(self.path) if name.startswith('index.') and name[6:].isdigit()))
-        if indicies:
-            return indicies[-1]
+        indices = sorted((int(name[6:]) for name in os.listdir(self.path) if name.startswith('index.') and name[6:].isdigit()))
+        if indices:
+            return indices[-1]
         else:
             return None
 
@@ -577,6 +576,7 @@ class LoggedIO(object):
         if self._write_fd:
             self.segment += 1
             self.offset = 0
-            os.fsync(self._write_fd)
+            self._write_fd.flush()
+            os.fsync(self._write_fd.fileno())
             self._write_fd.close()
             self._write_fd = None
diff --git a/attic/testsuite/__init__.py b/attic/testsuite/__init__.py
index 684eeb91..6b9d4fe9 100644
--- a/attic/testsuite/__init__.py
+++ b/attic/testsuite/__init__.py
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ except ImportError:
 has_lchflags = hasattr(os, 'lchflags')
 
 
-# The mtime get/set precison varies on different OS and Python versions
+# The mtime get/set precision varies on different OS and Python versions
 if 'HAVE_FUTIMENS' in getattr(posix, '_have_functions', []):
     st_mtime_ns_round = 0
 elif 'HAVE_UTIMES' in sysconfig.get_config_vars():
@@ -68,7 +68,7 @@ class AtticTestCase(unittest.TestCase):
             if has_lchflags:
                 attrs.append('st_flags')
             if not fuse or not os.path.isdir(path1):
-                # dir nlink is always 1 on our fuse fileystem
+                # dir nlink is always 1 on our fuse filesystem
                 attrs.append('st_nlink')
             d1 = [filename] + [getattr(s1, a) for a in attrs]
             d2 = [filename] + [getattr(s2, a) for a in attrs]
@@ -109,7 +109,7 @@ def get_tests(suite):
 
 
 class TestLoader(unittest.TestLoader):
-    """A customzied test loader that properly detects and filters our test cases
+    """A customized test loader that properly detects and filters our test cases
     """
 
     def loadTestsFromName(self, pattern, module=None):
diff --git a/attic/testsuite/helpers.py b/attic/testsuite/helpers.py
index e01b652c..472b8e2e 100644
--- a/attic/testsuite/helpers.py
+++ b/attic/testsuite/helpers.py
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ from datetime import datetime, timezone, timedelta
 import os
 import tempfile
 import unittest
-from attic.helpers import adjust_patterns, exclude_path, Location, format_timedelta, IncludePattern, ExcludePattern, make_path_safe, UpgradableLock, prune_within, prune_split, to_localtime, \
+from attic.helpers import adjust_patterns, exclude_path, Location, format_timedelta, ExcludePattern, make_path_safe, UpgradableLock, prune_within, prune_split, \
     StableDict, int_to_bigint, bigint_to_int
 from attic.testsuite import AtticTestCase
 import msgpack
@@ -139,7 +139,7 @@ class PruneSplitTestCase(AtticTestCase):
     def test(self):
 
         def local_to_UTC(month, day):
-            'Convert noon on the month and day in 2013 to UTC.'
+            """Convert noon on the month and day in 2013 to UTC."""
             seconds = mktime(strptime('2013-%02d-%02d 12:00' % (month, day), '%Y-%m-%d %H:%M'))
             return datetime.fromtimestamp(seconds, tz=timezone.utc)