diff --git a/Tools/i18n/msgfmt.py b/Tools/i18n/msgfmt.py
index 6433131..353be8b 100755
--- a/Tools/i18n/msgfmt.py
+++ b/Tools/i18n/msgfmt.py
@@ -110,7 +110,7 @@
 
     try:
         lines = open(infile).readlines()
-    except IOError, msg:
+    except IOError as msg:
         print >> sys.stderr, msg
         sys.exit(1)
 
@@ -167,7 +167,7 @@
 
     try:
         open(outfile,"wb").write(output)
-    except IOError,msg:
+    except IOError as msg:
         print >> sys.stderr, msg
 
 
@@ -176,7 +176,7 @@
     try:
         opts, args = getopt.getopt(sys.argv[1:], 'hVo:',
                                    ['help', 'version', 'output-file='])
-    except getopt.error, msg:
+    except getopt.error as msg:
         usage(1, msg)
 
     outfile = None
diff --git a/Tools/i18n/pygettext.py b/Tools/i18n/pygettext.py
index eadd149..24f1ce1 100755
--- a/Tools/i18n/pygettext.py
+++ b/Tools/i18n/pygettext.py
@@ -512,7 +512,7 @@
              'style=', 'verbose', 'version', 'width=', 'exclude-file=',
              'docstrings', 'no-docstrings',
              ])
-    except getopt.error, msg:
+    except getopt.error as msg:
         usage(1, msg)
 
     # for holding option values
@@ -635,7 +635,7 @@
             eater.set_filename(filename)
             try:
                 tokenize.tokenize(fp.readline, eater)
-            except tokenize.TokenError, e:
+            except tokenize.TokenError as e:
                 print >> sys.stderr, '%s: %s, line %d, column %d' % (
                     e[0], filename, e[1][0], e[1][1])
         finally: