diff --git a/pandas/_libs/internals.pyx b/pandas/_libs/internals.pyx
index b46a05a0842c3..2179999859dbb 100644
--- a/pandas/_libs/internals.pyx
+++ b/pandas/_libs/internals.pyx
@@ -435,4 +435,4 @@ def get_blkno_indexers(int64_t[:] blknos, bint group=True):
                         res_view[i] = diff
                         i += 1
 
-                yield blkno, result
\ No newline at end of file
+                yield blkno, result
diff --git a/pandas/_libs/writers.pyx b/pandas/_libs/writers.pyx
index 6f07d04b3fad3..77d8ca81258a0 100644
--- a/pandas/_libs/writers.pyx
+++ b/pandas/_libs/writers.pyx
@@ -16,8 +16,6 @@ cimport numpy as cnp
 from numpy cimport ndarray, uint8_t
 cnp.import_array()
 
-cimport util
-
 
 ctypedef fused pandas_string:
     str
diff --git a/pandas/tests/sparse/test_libsparse.py b/pandas/tests/sparse/test_libsparse.py
index 7719ea46503fd..3b90d93cee7a4 100644
--- a/pandas/tests/sparse/test_libsparse.py
+++ b/pandas/tests/sparse/test_libsparse.py
@@ -596,22 +596,9 @@ def _check_case(xloc, xlen, yloc, ylen, eloc, elen):
 
         check_cases(_check_case)
 
-
-# too cute? oh but how I abhor code duplication
-check_ops = ['add', 'sub', 'mul', 'truediv', 'floordiv']
-
-
-def make_optestf(op):
-    def f(self):
-        sparse_op = getattr(splib, 'sparse_%s_float64' % op)
-        python_op = getattr(operator, op)
+    @pytest.mark.parametrize('opname',
+                             ['add', 'sub', 'mul', 'truediv', 'floordiv'])
+    def test_op(self, opname):
+        sparse_op = getattr(splib, 'sparse_%s_float64' % opname)
+        python_op = getattr(operator, opname)
         self._op_tests(sparse_op, python_op)
-
-    f.__name__ = 'test_%s' % op
-    return f
-
-
-for op in check_ops:
-    g = make_optestf(op)
-    setattr(TestSparseOperators, g.__name__, g)
-    del g