SF patch 1631942 by Collin Winter:

(a) "except E, V" -> "except E as V"
(b) V is now limited to a simple name (local variable)
(c) V is now deleted at the end of the except block

Doc/tools/findcsyms

@@ -127,7 +127,7 @@ def main():
                 print_list(undocumented, "Undocumented symbols")
         else:
             print_list(L)
-    except IOError, e:
+    except IOError as e:
         if e.errno != errno.EPIPE:
             raise
 

Doc/tools/listmodules

@@ -53,7 +53,7 @@ def main():
         opts, args = getopt.getopt(
             args, "abchi:",
             ["annotate", "built-in", "categorize", "help", "ignore-from="])
-    except getopt.error, msg:
+    except getopt.error as msg:
         sys.stdout = sys.stderr
         print msg
         print

Doc/tools/mkhowto

@@ -599,7 +599,7 @@ def main():
     options = Options()
     try:
         args = options.parse(sys.argv[1:])
-    except getopt.error, msg:
+    except getopt.error as msg:
         error(options, msg)
     if not args:
         # attempt to locate single .tex file in current directory:

Doc/tools/mksourcepkg

@@ -45,7 +45,7 @@ def main():
           opts, args = getopt.getopt(sys.argv[1:], "Aabgtzq",
                                      ["all", "bzip2", "gzip", "tools", "zip",
                                       "quiet", "anonymous"])
-     except getopt.error, e:
+     except getopt.error as e:
           usage(warning=str(e))
           sys.exit(2)
      if len(args) not in (1, 2):

Doc/tools/prechm.py

@@ -448,7 +448,7 @@ def do_project(library, output, arch, version):
 def openfile(file):
     try:
         p = open(file, "w")
-    except IOError, msg:
+    except IOError as msg:
         print file, ":", msg
         sys.exit(1)
     return p
@@ -466,7 +466,7 @@ def do_it(args = None):
 
     try:
         optlist, args = getopt.getopt(args, 'ckpv:')
-    except getopt.error, msg:
+    except getopt.error as msg:
         print msg
         usage()
 

Doc/tools/sgmlconv/docfixer.py

@@ -1039,7 +1039,8 @@ def convert(ifp, ofp):
     #
     try:
         write_esis(fragment, ofp, knownempty)
-    except IOError, (err, msg):
+    except IOError as e:
+        (err, msg) = e
         # Ignore EPIPE; it just means that whoever we're writing to stopped
         # reading.  The rest of the output would be ignored.  All other errors
         # should still be reported,

Doc/tools/sgmlconv/esis2sgml.py

@@ -255,7 +255,8 @@ def main():
         if xml and xmldecl:
             opf.write('<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso8859-1"?>\n')
         convert(ifp, ofp, xml=xml, autoclose=autoclose, verbatims=verbatims)
-    except IOError, (err, msg):
+    except IOError as e:
+        (err, msg) = e
         if err != errno.EPIPE:
             raise
 

Doc/tools/sgmlconv/esistools.py

@@ -139,7 +139,7 @@ class ESISReader(xml.sax.xmlreader.XMLReader):
     def _get_token(self, fp):
         try:
             line = fp.readline()
-        except IOError, e:
+        except IOError as e:
             e = SAXException("I/O error reading input stream", e)
             self.getErrorHandler().fatalError(e)
             return

Doc/tools/sgmlconv/latex2esis.py

@@ -397,7 +397,8 @@ def convert(ifp, ofp, table):
     c = Conversion(ifp, ofp, table)
     try:
         c.convert()
-    except IOError, (err, msg):
+    except IOError as e:
+        (err, msg) = e
         if err != errno.EPIPE:
             raise