Fixed #18013 -- Use the new 'as' syntax for exceptions.

Thanks Clueless for the initial patch.
Note that unittest has been purposely left out (external package only used by Python 2.6).

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/django/contrib/auth/__init__.py b/django/contrib/auth/__init__.py
index dd816ce726..0b3ccf7d8c 100644
--- a/django/contrib/auth/__init__.py
+++ b/django/contrib/auth/__init__.py
@@ -11,9 +11,9 @@ def load_backend(path):
     module, attr = path[:i], path[i+1:]
     try:
         mod = import_module(module)
-    except ImportError, e:
+    except ImportError as e:
         raise ImproperlyConfigured('Error importing authentication backend %s: "%s"' % (path, e))
-    except ValueError, e:
+    except ValueError:
         raise ImproperlyConfigured('Error importing authentication backends. Is AUTHENTICATION_BACKENDS a correctly defined list or tuple?')
     try:
         cls = getattr(mod, attr)