diff --git a/exercises/09-Creating-Your-First-Function/test.py b/exercises/09-Creating-Your-First-Function/test.py
index 90013d15..8cd7aeea 100644
--- a/exercises/09-Creating-Your-First-Function/test.py
+++ b/exercises/09-Creating-Your-First-Function/test.py
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ def test_use_my_var1():
     my_return = [s for s in content if "return" in s]
     my_returnIndex = content.index(my_return[0])
     # print(my_print_index)
-    regex = r"return a(\s*)\+(\s*)b"
+    regex = r"return(\s*)(\W*)a(\s*)\+(\s*)b(\s*)(\W*)"
     assert re.match(regex, content[my_returnIndex])
 
 #     assert re.match(regex, content)
diff --git a/exercises/17-While-Loop/app.py b/exercises/17-While-Loop/app.py
index 84b0e9db..04d18708 100644
--- a/exercises/17-While-Loop/app.py
+++ b/exercises/17-While-Loop/app.py
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 def start_counting():
     counter = 100
-    while counter <= 100:
+    while counter > -1:
         print(counter)
         counter-=1
     return counter