diff --git a/examples/seq2seq/rouge_cli.py b/examples/seq2seq/rouge_cli.py
index b193581bc82..6a54a72eb58 100644
--- a/examples/seq2seq/rouge_cli.py
+++ b/examples/seq2seq/rouge_cli.py
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ def calculate_rouge_path(pred_path, tgt_path, save_path=None, **kwargs):
     tgt_lns = [x.strip() for x in open(tgt_path).readlines()][: len(pred_lns)]
     metrics = calculate_rouge(pred_lns, tgt_lns, **kwargs)
     if save_path is not None:
-        save_json(metrics, save_path)
+        save_json(metrics, save_path, indent=None)
     return metrics  # these print nicely
 
 
diff --git a/examples/seq2seq/run_eval.py b/examples/seq2seq/run_eval.py
index 09830b66db7..910d430bddb 100755
--- a/examples/seq2seq/run_eval.py
+++ b/examples/seq2seq/run_eval.py
@@ -152,8 +152,7 @@ def run_generate(verbose=True):
         print(scores)
 
     if args.score_path is not None:
-        path = args.score_path
-        json.dump(scores, open(path, "w"))
+        json.dump(scores, open(args.score_path, "w"))
 
     return scores