diff --git a/synergy/client/command.py b/synergy/client/command.py
index 4e2fb35..3d06d62 100644
--- a/synergy/client/command.py
+++ b/synergy/client/command.py
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 import json
 import requests
 
-from synergy.common import utils
+from synergy.common.utils import objectHookHandler
 from tabulate import tabulate
 
 
@@ -35,32 +35,16 @@ class HTTPCommand(object):
     def configureParser(self, subparser):
         raise NotImplementedError("not implemented!")
 
-    def objectHookHandler(self, parsed_dict):
-        if "synergy_object" in parsed_dict:
-            synergy_object = parsed_dict["synergy_object"]
-            try:
-                objClass = utils.import_class(synergy_object["name"])
-
-                objInstance = objClass()
-                return objInstance.deserialize(parsed_dict)
-            except Exception as ex:
-                print(ex)
-                raise ex
-        else:
-            return parsed_dict
-
     def execute(self, synergy_url, payload=None):
         request = requests.get(synergy_url, params=payload)
 
         if request.status_code != requests.codes.ok:
-            # print(request.reason)
-            # print(request.status_code)
             request.raise_for_status()
 
         self.results = request.json()
 
         try:
-            return json.loads(request.text, object_hook=self.objectHookHandler)
+            return json.loads(request.text, object_hook=objectHookHandler)
         except Exception:
             return request.json()
 
diff --git a/synergy/client/shell.py b/synergy/client/shell.py
index b97b2d7..405ea2e 100644
--- a/synergy/client/shell.py
+++ b/synergy/client/shell.py
@@ -176,7 +176,6 @@ def main():
             print("command %r not found!" % command_name)
 
         commands[command_name].execute(synergy_url, args)
-        # commands[command_name].log()
     except KeyboardInterrupt as e:
         print("Shutting down synergyclient")
         sys.exit(1)
diff --git a/synergy/common/serializer.py b/synergy/common/serializer.py
index f0102e2..f8fdb25 100644
--- a/synergy/common/serializer.py
+++ b/synergy/common/serializer.py
@@ -92,11 +92,9 @@ class SynergyObject(object):
 
         try:
             objName = synergy_object["name"]
-            # objVer = synergy_object['version']
             objClass = utils.import_class(objName)
             objInstance = objClass()
         except Exception as ex:
-            print(ex)
             raise Exception("error on deserializing the object %r: %s"
                             % (objName, ex))
 
diff --git a/synergy/common/utils.py b/synergy/common/utils.py
index 0b209cb..66735b4 100644
--- a/synergy/common/utils.py
+++ b/synergy/common/utils.py
@@ -31,3 +31,16 @@ def import_class(import_str):
         raise ImportError(
             'Class %s cannot be found (%s)' %
             (class_str, traceback.format_exception(*sys.exc_info())))
+
+
+def objectHookHandler(parsed_dict):
+    if "synergy_object" in parsed_dict:
+        synergy_object = parsed_dict["synergy_object"]
+        try:
+            objClass = import_class(synergy_object["name"])
+            objInstance = objClass()
+            return objInstance.deserialize(parsed_dict)
+        except Exception as ex:
+            raise ex
+    else:
+        return parsed_dict
diff --git a/synergy/tests/functional/test_synergy.py b/synergy/tests/functional/test_synergy.py
index 811f1d1..4ab1859 100644
--- a/synergy/tests/functional/test_synergy.py
+++ b/synergy/tests/functional/test_synergy.py
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ import sys
 import time
 
 from mock import Mock
-from synergy.common import utils
+from synergy.common.utils import objectHookHandler
 from synergy.service import Synergy
 
 logging.basicConfig(level=logging.DEBUG)
@@ -48,21 +48,6 @@ def getLogger(name):
     return logger
 
 
-def objectHookHandler(parsed_dict):
-    if "synergy_object" in parsed_dict:
-        synergy_object = parsed_dict["synergy_object"]
-        try:
-            objClass = utils.import_class(synergy_object["name"])
-
-            objInstance = objClass()
-            return objInstance.deserialize(parsed_dict)
-        except Exception as ex:
-            print(ex)
-            raise ex
-    else:
-        return parsed_dict
-
-
 class SynergyTests(unittest.TestCase):
 
     @mock.patch('synergy.service.LOG', LOG)
diff --git a/test-requirements.txt b/test-requirements.txt
index 56027c3..58f8a7b 100644
--- a/test-requirements.txt
+++ b/test-requirements.txt
@@ -13,5 +13,4 @@ testrepository>=0.0.18
 testscenarios>=0.4
 testtools>=1.4.0
 mock==2.0.0
-tabulate>=0.7.2,<0.8.0