diff --git a/modules/amv/intercompare.py b/modules/amv/intercompare.py
index 395cda0480962f0e87c303ec158180792ce99748..53bf931d32fc2ae78d3ff7facae77ab3a1b0bb9a 100644
--- a/modules/amv/intercompare.py
+++ b/modules/amv/intercompare.py
@@ -1,29 +1,25 @@
 import numpy as np
 import xarray as xr
-from util.setup import home_dir
+# from util.setup import home_dir
 from util.lon_lat_grid import earth_to_indexs
 from util.util import haversine_np
 from util.gfs_reader import get_vert_profile_s
-import cartopy
+# import cartopy
 from cartopy import *
 import metpy.calc as mpcalc
 import cartopy.crs as ccrs
 from metpy.units import units
 import h5py
 import time
-from scipy.interpolate import interp1d
+# from scipy.interpolate import interp1d
 from util.util import minimize_quadratic
 from netCDF4 import Dataset
 import datetime
 from datetime import timezone
 from util.util import LatLonTuple
 
-#-- AMV intercompare stuff ------------------------------------------
-
-class MyGenericException(Exception):
-    def __init__(self, message):
-        self.message = message
-
+# -- AMV intercompare stuff ------------------------------------------
+# --------------------------------------------------------------------
 
 amv_hdr_list = ['lat', 'lon', 'tbox', 'sbox', 'spd', 'dir', 'pres', 'lowl', 'mspd', 'mdir',
                 'alb', 'corr', 'tmet', 'perr', 'qi', 'cqi', 'qif']
@@ -45,6 +41,7 @@ amv_qif_idx = amv_hdr_list.index('qif')
 
 amv_centers_list = ['EUM', 'BRZ', 'JMA', 'KMA', 'NOA', 'NWC']
 
+
 def get_amv_nd(filename):
     header = None
     data = []