diff --git a/cupyx/scipy/spatial/distance.py b/cupyx/scipy/spatial/distance.py
index 8d12090daf2..425f8b09274 100644
--- a/cupyx/scipy/spatial/distance.py
+++ b/cupyx/scipy/spatial/distance.py
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@
     cuvs_available = True
 except ImportError:
     try:
-        #cuVS distance primitives were previously in pylibraft
+        # cuVS distance primitives were previously in pylibraft
         from pylibraft.distance import pairwise_distance
         pylibraft_available = True
     except ImportError:
@@ -110,12 +110,14 @@ def __init__(self, canonical_name=None, aka=None,
 
 _METRICS_NAMES = list(_METRICS.keys())
 
+
 def check_soft_dependencies():
     if not cuvs_available:
         if not pylibraft_available:
             raise RuntimeError('cuVS >= 24.12 or pylibraft < '
                                '24.12 should be installed to use this feature')
 
+
 def minkowski(u, v, p):
     """Compute the Minkowski distance between two 1-D arrays.
 
@@ -496,7 +498,6 @@ def cdist(XA, XB, metric='euclidean', out=None, **kwargs):
     """
     check_soft_dependencies()
 
-
     if pylibraft_available or \
             (cuvs_available and XA.dtype not in ['float32', 'float64']):
         XA = cupy.asarray(XA, dtype='float32')