diff --git a/onionr/apiservers/README.md b/onionr/apiservers/README.md
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@@ -0,0 +1,9 @@
+# API Servers
+
+Contains the WSGI servers Onionr uses for remote peer communication and local daemon control
+
+## Files
+
+* \_\_init\_\_.py: Exposes the server classes
+* private: Contains the client API (the server used to interact with the local Onionr daemon, and view the web UI)
+* public: Contains the public API (the server used by remote peers to talk to our daemon)
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diff --git a/onionr/apiservers/private/README.md b/onionr/apiservers/private/README.md
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@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+# Private API Server
+
+Private API server, used to access the web interface locally and control Onionr
+
+## Files
+
+* \_\_init\_\_.py: Sets up the server and a few misc functions
+* register_private_blueprints.py: Adds in flask blueprints for various sub-APIs
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diff --git a/onionr/apiservers/private/__init__.py b/onionr/apiservers/private/__init__.py
index adeda677..b413ac91 100644
--- a/onionr/apiservers/private/__init__.py
+++ b/onionr/apiservers/private/__init__.py
@@ -72,7 +72,7 @@ class PrivateAPI:
         '''
             Validate that the client token matches the given token. Used to prevent CSRF and data exfiltration
         '''
-        if len(self.clientToken) == 0:
+        if not self.clientToken:
             logger.error("client password needs to be set")
             return False
         try:
diff --git a/onionr/communicator/README.md b/onionr/communicator/README.md
index 941f3642..9925f247 100644
--- a/onionr/communicator/README.md
+++ b/onionr/communicator/README.md
@@ -5,11 +5,11 @@ Onionr communicator is the Onionr client. It "connects" to remote Onionr peers a
 * Finding new peers
 * Uploading blocks
 * Downloading blocks
-* Daemon maintnence/housekeeping
+* Daemon maintenance/housekeeping
 
 ## Files
 
 * \_\_init\_\_.py: Contains the main communicator code. Inits and launches the communicator and sets up the timers
 * peeraction.py: contains a function to send commands to remote peers
 * bootstrappers.py: adds peers from the bootstrap list to the communicator to try to connect to them
-* onlinepers: management of the online peer pool for the communicator
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+* onlinepeers: management of the online peer pool for the communicator
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diff --git a/onionr/communicator/onlinepeers/README.md b/onionr/communicator/onlinepeers/README.md
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+# Online Peers
+
+Manages a pool of peers to perform actions with. Since Onionr does not maintain socket connections, it holds a list of peers.
+
+
+## Files
+
+* \_\_init\_\_.py: exposes some functions to interact with the pool
+* clearofflinepeer.py: Pop the oldest peer in the offline list
+* onlinepeers.py: communicator timer to add new peers to the pool randomly
+* pickonlinepeers.py: returns a random peer from the online pool
+* removeonlinepeer.py: removes a specified peer from the online pool
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diff --git a/onionr/communicator/onlinepeers/pickonlinepeers.py b/onionr/communicator/onlinepeers/pickonlinepeers.py
index 8eb6b7ec..5fdcc08e 100644
--- a/onionr/communicator/onlinepeers/pickonlinepeers.py
+++ b/onionr/communicator/onlinepeers/pickonlinepeers.py
@@ -20,16 +20,16 @@
 import secrets
 def pick_online_peer(comm_inst):
     '''randomly picks peer from pool without bias (using secrets module)'''
-    retData = ''
+    ret_data = ''
     while True:
-        peerLength = len(comm_inst.onlinePeers)
-        if peerLength <= 0:
+        peer_length = len(comm_inst.onlinePeers)
+        if peer_length <= 0:
             break
         try:
             # get a random online peer, securely. May get stuck in loop if network is lost or if all peers in pool magically disconnect at once
-            retData = comm_inst.onlinePeers[secrets.randbelow(peerLength)]
+            ret_data = comm_inst.onlinePeers[secrets.randbelow(peer_length)]
         except IndexError:
             pass
         else:
             break
-    return retData
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+    return ret_data
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