diff --git a/scripts/count.py b/scripts/count.py
index fd05355a4855b3022934ef2d6896c4946c8b1e3a..d5da1f0ff64f7e5611ec14f00c8862ec65cee68a 100755
--- a/scripts/count.py
+++ b/scripts/count.py
@@ -58,7 +58,7 @@ def wordcount(filepath):
     # perform the counting using the Counter class
     counted = Counter(cleaned)
     # print top 10 most frequent
-    print("Counts:\n\n", counted.most_common(10), "\n\n")
+    print(f"Counts:\n\n{counted.most_common(10)}\n\n")
     # return the wordcount data to us after we call this function
     return counted
 
diff --git a/scripts/wordcount.py b/scripts/wordcount.py
index 6adf2ecec61e9e2492a7e39e72b376d1197458e3..a03eb4203aff54b77d5f35381c6cc44135e512c5 100755
--- a/scripts/wordcount.py
+++ b/scripts/wordcount.py
@@ -49,7 +49,7 @@ def wordcount(filepath):
     # perform the counting using the Counter class
     counted = Counter(cleaned)
     # print top 10 most frequent
-    print("Counts:\n\n", counted.most_common(10), "\n\n")
+    print(f"Counts:\n\n{counted.most_common(10)}\n\n")
     # return the wordcount data to us after we call this function
     return counted