diff --git a/test/common/torchtext_test_case.py b/test/common/torchtext_test_case.py
index 322eb32292..c456cd705b 100644
--- a/test/common/torchtext_test_case.py
+++ b/test/common/torchtext_test_case.py
@@ -108,7 +108,7 @@ def make_mock_dataset(self, num_examples=30, num_labels=3):
 
         texts = [str(i) for i in range(num_examples)]
         labels = list(range(num_labels)) * num_repetitions
-        labels = [str(l) for l in labels[:num_examples]]
+        labels = [str(line) for line in labels[:num_examples]]
 
         dict_dataset = [
             {'text': t, 'label': l} for t, l in zip(texts, labels)
diff --git a/torchtext/datasets/translation.py b/torchtext/datasets/translation.py
index 058022999f..ac1b2f322a 100644
--- a/torchtext/datasets/translation.py
+++ b/torchtext/datasets/translation.py
@@ -178,9 +178,9 @@ def clean(path):
             f_txt = f_orig.replace('.tags', '')
             with codecs.open(f_txt, mode='w', encoding='utf-8') as fd_txt, \
                     io.open(f_orig, mode='r', encoding='utf-8') as fd_orig:
-                for l in fd_orig:
-                    if not any(tag in l for tag in xml_tags):
-                        fd_txt.write(l.strip() + '\n')
+                for line in fd_orig:
+                    if not any(tag in line for tag in xml_tags):
+                        fd_txt.write(line.strip() + '\n')
 
 
 class WMT14(TranslationDataset):