diff --git a/python/tests/test_files.py b/python/tests/test_files.py
index 3eb654fd0..d3f6914c0 100644
--- a/python/tests/test_files.py
+++ b/python/tests/test_files.py
@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ def test_memmap(self):
             vecs_file_copy = tempfile.NamedTemporaryFile(delete=False)
             atexit.register(Path(vecs_file_copy.name).unlink)
             shutil.copyfile(vecs_file, vecs_file_copy.name)
-            
+
             actual = dap.vectors_from_file(
                 vecs_file,
                 dtype=np.float32,
diff --git a/python/tests/test_static_memory_index.py b/python/tests/test_static_memory_index.py
index fe571be5d..e4662ad4b 100644
--- a/python/tests/test_static_memory_index.py
+++ b/python/tests/test_static_memory_index.py
@@ -306,6 +306,8 @@ def test_exhaustive_validation(self):
             with_filter_but_label_all, _ = index.search(
                 query_vectors[0], k_neighbors=k*2, complexity=128, filter_label="all"
             )
+            # this has begun failing randomly. gopalrs - this *shouldn't* fail, but for some reason the filtered search
+            # will sometimes return fewer than the expected 10k results here. 
             intersection = np.intersect1d(without_filter, with_filter_but_label_all)
             intersect_count = intersection.shape[0]
             self.assertEqual(intersect_count, k*2)