Use except .. as everywhere (#180)

4 files changed, 84 insertions, 84 deletions

diff --git a/youtube_dl/FileDownloader.py b/youtube_dl/FileDownloader.py
index 815b81296..411d01a41 100644
--- a/youtube_dl/FileDownloader.py
+++ b/youtube_dl/FileDownloader.py
@@ -247,7 +247,7 @@ class FileDownloader(object):
 			if old_filename == new_filename:
 				return
 			os.rename(encodeFilename(old_filename), encodeFilename(new_filename))
-		except (IOError, OSError), err:
+		except (IOError, OSError) as err:
 			self.trouble(u'ERROR: unable to rename file')
 
 	def try_utime(self, filename, last_modified_hdr):
@@ -305,7 +305,7 @@ class FileDownloader(object):
 		"""Report file has already been fully downloaded."""
 		try:
 			self.to_screen(u'[download] %s has already been downloaded' % file_name)
-		except (UnicodeEncodeError), err:
+		except (UnicodeEncodeError) as err:
 			self.to_screen(u'[download] The file has already been downloaded')
 
 	def report_unable_to_resume(self):
@@ -336,7 +336,7 @@ class FileDownloader(object):
 
 			filename = self.params['outtmpl'] % template_dict
 			return filename
-		except (ValueError, KeyError), err:
+		except (ValueError, KeyError) as err:
 			self.trouble(u'ERROR: invalid system charset or erroneous output template')
 			return None
 
@@ -402,7 +402,7 @@ class FileDownloader(object):
 			dn = os.path.dirname(encodeFilename(filename))
 			if dn != '' and not os.path.exists(dn): # dn is already encoded
 				os.makedirs(dn)
-		except (OSError, IOError), err:
+		except (OSError, IOError) as err:
 			self.trouble(u'ERROR: unable to create directory ' + compat_str(err))
 			return
 
@@ -459,19 +459,19 @@ class FileDownloader(object):
 			else:
 				try:
 					success = self._do_download(filename, info_dict)
-				except (OSError, IOError), err:
+				except (OSError, IOError) as err:
 					raise UnavailableVideoError
-				except (urllib2.URLError, httplib.HTTPException, socket.error), err:
+				except (urllib2.URLError, httplib.HTTPException, socket.error) as err:
 					self.trouble(u'ERROR: unable to download video data: %s' % str(err))
 					return
-				except (ContentTooShortError, ), err:
+				except (ContentTooShortError, ) as err:
 					self.trouble(u'ERROR: content too short (expected %s bytes and served %s)' % (err.expected, err.downloaded))
 					return
 
 			if success:
 				try:
 					self.post_process(filename, info_dict)
-				except (PostProcessingError), err:
+				except (PostProcessingError) as err:
 					self.trouble(u'ERROR: postprocessing: %s' % str(err))
 					return
 
@@ -612,7 +612,7 @@ class FileDownloader(object):
 					data = info_dict['urlhandle']
 				data = urllib2.urlopen(request)
 				break
-			except (urllib2.HTTPError, ), err:
+			except (urllib2.HTTPError, ) as err:
 				if (err.code < 500 or err.code >= 600) and err.code != 416:
 					# Unexpected HTTP error
 					raise
@@ -622,7 +622,7 @@ class FileDownloader(object):
 						# Open the connection again without the range header
 						data = urllib2.urlopen(basic_request)
 						content_length = data.info()['Content-Length']
-					except (urllib2.HTTPError, ), err:
+					except (urllib2.HTTPError, ) as err:
 						if err.code < 500 or err.code >= 600:
 							raise
 					else:
@@ -676,12 +676,12 @@ class FileDownloader(object):
 					assert stream is not None
 					filename = self.undo_temp_name(tmpfilename)
 					self.report_destination(filename)
-				except (OSError, IOError), err:
+				except (OSError, IOError) as err:
 					self.trouble(u'ERROR: unable to open for writing: %s' % str(err))
 					return False
 			try:
 				stream.write(data_block)
-			except (IOError, OSError), err:
+			except (IOError, OSError) as err:
 				self.trouble(u'\nERROR: unable to write data: %s' % str(err))
 				return False
 			if not self.params.get('noresizebuffer', False):
diff --git a/youtube_dl/InfoExtractors.py b/youtube_dl/InfoExtractors.py
index f0d3e0c63..f07735360 100644
--- a/youtube_dl/InfoExtractors.py
+++ b/youtube_dl/InfoExtractors.py
@@ -252,7 +252,7 @@ class YoutubeIE(InfoExtractor):
 					password = info[2]
 				else:
 					raise netrc.NetrcParseError('No authenticators for %s' % self._NETRC_MACHINE)
-			except (IOError, netrc.NetrcParseError), err:
+			except (IOError, netrc.NetrcParseError) as err:
 				self._downloader.to_stderr(u'WARNING: parsing .netrc: %s' % compat_str(err))
 				return
 
@@ -261,7 +261,7 @@ class YoutubeIE(InfoExtractor):
 		try:
 			self.report_lang()
 			urllib2.urlopen(request).read()
-		except (urllib2.URLError, httplib.HTTPException, socket.error), err:
+		except (urllib2.URLError, httplib.HTTPException, socket.error) as err:
 			self._downloader.to_stderr(u'WARNING: unable to set language: %s' % compat_str(err))
 			return
 
@@ -284,7 +284,7 @@ class YoutubeIE(InfoExtractor):
 			if re.search(r'(?i)<form[^>]* name="loginForm"', login_results) is not None:
 				self._downloader.to_stderr(u'WARNING: unable to log in: bad username or password')
 				return
-		except (urllib2.URLError, httplib.HTTPException, socket.error), err:
+		except (urllib2.URLError, httplib.HTTPException, socket.error) as err:
 			self._downloader.to_stderr(u'WARNING: unable to log in: %s' % compat_str(err))
 			return
 
@@ -297,7 +297,7 @@ class YoutubeIE(InfoExtractor):
 		try:
 			self.report_age_confirmation()
 			age_results = urllib2.urlopen(request).read()
-		except (urllib2.URLError, httplib.HTTPException, socket.error), err:
+		except (urllib2.URLError, httplib.HTTPException, socket.error) as err:
 			self._downloader.trouble(u'ERROR: unable to confirm age: %s' % compat_str(err))
 			return
 
@@ -319,7 +319,7 @@ class YoutubeIE(InfoExtractor):
 		request = urllib2.Request('http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=%s&gl=US&hl=en&has_verified=1' % video_id)
 		try:
 			video_webpage = urllib2.urlopen(request).read()
-		except (urllib2.URLError, httplib.HTTPException, socket.error), err:
+		except (urllib2.URLError, httplib.HTTPException, socket.error) as err:
 			self._downloader.trouble(u'ERROR: unable to download video webpage: %s' % compat_str(err))
 			return
 
@@ -341,7 +341,7 @@ class YoutubeIE(InfoExtractor):
 				video_info = parse_qs(video_info_webpage)
 				if 'token' in video_info:
 					break
-			except (urllib2.URLError, httplib.HTTPException, socket.error), err:
+			except (urllib2.URLError, httplib.HTTPException, socket.error) as err:
 				self._downloader.trouble(u'ERROR: unable to download video info webpage: %s' % compat_str(err))
 				return
 		if 'token' not in video_info:
@@ -404,7 +404,7 @@ class YoutubeIE(InfoExtractor):
 				request = urllib2.Request('http://video.google.com/timedtext?hl=en&type=list&v=%s' % video_id)
 				try:
 					srt_list = urllib2.urlopen(request).read()
-				except (urllib2.URLError, httplib.HTTPException, socket.error), err:
+				except (urllib2.URLError, httplib.HTTPException, socket.error) as err:
 					raise Trouble(u'WARNING: unable to download video subtitles: %s' % compat_str(err))
 				srt_lang_list = re.findall(r'name="([^"]*)"[^>]+lang_code="([\w\-]+)"', srt_list)
 				srt_lang_list = dict((l[1], l[0]) for l in srt_lang_list)
@@ -421,7 +421,7 @@ class YoutubeIE(InfoExtractor):
 				request = urllib2.Request('http://www.youtube.com/api/timedtext?lang=%s&name=%s&v=%s' % (srt_lang, srt_lang_list[srt_lang], video_id))
 				try:
 					srt_xml = urllib2.urlopen(request).read()
-				except (urllib2.URLError, httplib.HTTPException, socket.error), err:
+				except (urllib2.URLError, httplib.HTTPException, socket.error) as err:
 					raise Trouble(u'WARNING: unable to download video subtitles: %s' % compat_str(err))
 				if not srt_xml:
 					raise Trouble(u'WARNING: unable to download video subtitles')
@@ -543,7 +543,7 @@ class MetacafeIE(InfoExtractor):
 		try:
 			self.report_disclaimer()
 			disclaimer = urllib2.urlopen(request).read()
-		except (urllib2.URLError, httplib.HTTPException, socket.error), err:
+		except (urllib2.URLError, httplib.HTTPException, socket.error) as err:
 			self._downloader.trouble(u'ERROR: unable to retrieve disclaimer: %s' % compat_str(err))
 			return
 
@@ -556,7 +556,7 @@ class MetacafeIE(InfoExtractor):
 		try:
 			self.report_age_confirmation()
 			disclaimer = urllib2.urlopen(request).read()
-		except (urllib2.URLError, httplib.HTTPException, socket.error), err:
+		except (urllib2.URLError, httplib.HTTPException, socket.error) as err:
 			self._downloader.trouble(u'ERROR: unable to confirm age: %s' % compat_str(err))
 			return
 
@@ -580,7 +580,7 @@ class MetacafeIE(InfoExtractor):
 		try:
 			self.report_download_webpage(video_id)
 			webpage = urllib2.urlopen(request).read()
-		except (urllib2.URLError, httplib.HTTPException, socket.error), err:
+		except (urllib2.URLError, httplib.HTTPException, socket.error) as err:
 			self._downloader.trouble(u'ERROR: unable retrieve video webpage: %s' % compat_str(err))
 			return
 
@@ -671,7 +671,7 @@ class DailymotionIE(InfoExtractor):
 		try:
 			self.report_download_webpage(video_id)
 			webpage = urllib2.urlopen(request).read()
-		except (urllib2.URLError, httplib.HTTPException, socket.error), err:
+		except (urllib2.URLError, httplib.HTTPException, socket.error) as err:
 			self._downloader.trouble(u'ERROR: unable retrieve video webpage: %s' % compat_str(err))
 			return
 
@@ -767,7 +767,7 @@ class GoogleIE(InfoExtractor):
 		try:
 			self.report_download_webpage(video_id)
 			webpage = urllib2.urlopen(request).read()
-		except (urllib2.URLError, httplib.HTTPException, socket.error), err:
+		except (urllib2.URLError, httplib.HTTPException, socket.error) as err:
 			self._downloader.trouble(u'ERROR: Unable to retrieve video webpage: %s' % compat_str(err))
 			return
 
@@ -806,7 +806,7 @@ class GoogleIE(InfoExtractor):
 			request = urllib2.Request('http://video.google.com/videosearch?q=%s+site:video.google.com&hl=en' % abs(int(video_id)))
 			try:
 				webpage = urllib2.urlopen(request).read()
-			except (urllib2.URLError, httplib.HTTPException, socket.error), err:
+			except (urllib2.URLError, httplib.HTTPException, socket.error) as err:
 				self._downloader.trouble(u'ERROR: Unable to retrieve video webpage: %s' % compat_str(err))
 				return
 			mobj = re.search(r'<img class=thumbnail-img (?:.* )?src=(http.*)>', webpage)
@@ -860,7 +860,7 @@ class PhotobucketIE(InfoExtractor):
 		try:
 			self.report_download_webpage(video_id)
 			webpage = urllib2.urlopen(request).read()
-		except (urllib2.URLError, httplib.HTTPException, socket.error), err:
+		except (urllib2.URLError, httplib.HTTPException, socket.error) as err:
 			self._downloader.trouble(u'ERROR: Unable to retrieve video webpage: %s' % compat_str(err))
 			return
 
@@ -928,7 +928,7 @@ class YahooIE(InfoExtractor):
 			request = urllib2.Request(url)
 			try:
 				webpage = urllib2.urlopen(request).read()
-			except (urllib2.URLError, httplib.HTTPException, socket.error), err:
+			except (urllib2.URLError, httplib.HTTPException, socket.error) as err:
 				self._downloader.trouble(u'ERROR: Unable to retrieve video webpage: %s' % compat_str(err))
 				return
 
@@ -952,7 +952,7 @@ class YahooIE(InfoExtractor):
 		try:
 			self.report_download_webpage(video_id)
 			webpage = urllib2.urlopen(request).read()
-		except (urllib2.URLError, httplib.HTTPException, socket.error), err:
+		except (urllib2.URLError, httplib.HTTPException, socket.error) as err:
 			self._downloader.trouble(u'ERROR: Unable to retrieve video webpage: %s' % compat_str(err))
 			return
 
@@ -1010,7 +1010,7 @@ class YahooIE(InfoExtractor):
 		try:
 			self.report_download_webpage(video_id)
 			webpage = urllib2.urlopen(request).read()
-		except (urllib2.URLError, httplib.HTTPException, socket.error), err:
+		except (urllib2.URLError, httplib.HTTPException, socket.error) as err:
 			self._downloader.trouble(u'ERROR: Unable to retrieve video webpage: %s' % compat_str(err))
 			return
 
@@ -1066,7 +1066,7 @@ class VimeoIE(InfoExtractor):
 		try:
 			self.report_download_webpage(video_id)
 			webpage = urllib2.urlopen(request).read()
-		except (urllib2.URLError, httplib.HTTPException, socket.error), err:
+		except (urllib2.URLError, httplib.HTTPException, socket.error) as err:
 			self._downloader.trouble(u'ERROR: Unable to retrieve video webpage: %s' % compat_str(err))
 			return
 
@@ -1172,10 +1172,10 @@ class ArteTvIE(InfoExtractor):
 		try:
 			self.report_download_webpage(url)
 			webpage = urllib2.urlopen(request).read()
-		except (urllib2.URLError, httplib.HTTPException, socket.error), err:
+		except (urllib2.URLError, httplib.HTTPException, socket.error) as err:
 			self._downloader.trouble(u'ERROR: Unable to retrieve video webpage: %s' % compat_str(err))
 			return
-		except ValueError, err:
+		except ValueError as err:
 			self._downloader.trouble(u'ERROR: Invalid URL: %s' % url)
 			return
 		return webpage
@@ -1368,10 +1368,10 @@ class GenericIE(InfoExtractor):
 		try:
 			self.report_download_webpage(video_id)
 			webpage = urllib2.urlopen(request).read()
-		except (urllib2.URLError, httplib.HTTPException, socket.error), err:
+		except (urllib2.URLError, httplib.HTTPException, socket.error) as err:
 			self._downloader.trouble(u'ERROR: Unable to retrieve video webpage: %s' % compat_str(err))
 			return
-		except ValueError, err:
+		except ValueError as err:
 			# since this is the last-resort InfoExtractor, if
 			# this error is thrown, it'll be thrown here
 			self._downloader.trouble(u'ERROR: Invalid URL: %s' % url)
@@ -1487,7 +1487,7 @@ class YoutubeSearchIE(InfoExtractor):
 			request = urllib2.Request(result_url)
 			try:
 				data = urllib2.urlopen(request).read()
-			except (urllib2.URLError, httplib.HTTPException, socket.error), err:
+			except (urllib2.URLError, httplib.HTTPException, socket.error) as err:
 				self._downloader.trouble(u'ERROR: unable to download API page: %s' % compat_str(err))
 				return
 			api_response = json.loads(data)['data']
@@ -1564,7 +1564,7 @@ class GoogleSearchIE(InfoExtractor):
 			request = urllib2.Request(result_url)
 			try:
 				page = urllib2.urlopen(request).read()
-			except (urllib2.URLError, httplib.HTTPException, socket.error), err:
+			except (urllib2.URLError, httplib.HTTPException, socket.error) as err:
 				self._downloader.trouble(u'ERROR: unable to download webpage: %s' % compat_str(err))
 				return
 
@@ -1647,7 +1647,7 @@ class YahooSearchIE(InfoExtractor):
 			request = urllib2.Request(result_url)
 			try:
 				page = urllib2.urlopen(request).read()
-			except (urllib2.URLError, httplib.HTTPException, socket.error), err:
+			except (urllib2.URLError, httplib.HTTPException, socket.error) as err:
 				self._downloader.trouble(u'ERROR: unable to download webpage: %s' % compat_str(err))
 				return
 
@@ -1717,7 +1717,7 @@ class YoutubePlaylistIE(InfoExtractor):
 			request = urllib2.Request(url)
 			try:
 				page = urllib2.urlopen(request).read()
-			except (urllib2.URLError, httplib.HTTPException, socket.error), err:
+			except (urllib2.URLError, httplib.HTTPException, socket.error) as err:
 				self._downloader.trouble(u'ERROR: unable to download webpage: %s' % compat_str(err))
 				return
 
@@ -1774,7 +1774,7 @@ class YoutubeChannelIE(InfoExtractor):
 			request = urllib2.Request(url)
 			try:
 				page = urllib2.urlopen(request).read()
-			except (urllib2.URLError, httplib.HTTPException, socket.error), err:
+			except (urllib2.URLError, httplib.HTTPException, socket.error) as err:
 				self._downloader.trouble(u'ERROR: unable to download webpage: %s' % compat_str(err))
 				return
 
@@ -1837,7 +1837,7 @@ class YoutubeUserIE(InfoExtractor):
 
 			try:
 				page = urllib2.urlopen(request).read()
-			except (urllib2.URLError, httplib.HTTPException, socket.error), err:
+			except (urllib2.URLError, httplib.HTTPException, socket.error) as err:
 				self._downloader.trouble(u'ERROR: unable to download webpage: %s' % compat_str(err))
 				return
 
@@ -1909,7 +1909,7 @@ class BlipTVUserIE(InfoExtractor):
 			page = urllib2.urlopen(request).read().decode('utf-8')
 			mobj = re.search(r'data-users-id="([^"]+)"', page)
 			page_base = page_base % mobj.group(1)
-		except (urllib2.URLError, httplib.HTTPException, socket.error), err:
+		except (urllib2.URLError, httplib.HTTPException, socket.error) as err:
 			self._downloader.trouble(u'ERROR: unable to download webpage: %s' % compat_str(err))
 			return
 
@@ -1929,7 +1929,7 @@ class BlipTVUserIE(InfoExtractor):
 
 			try:
 				page = urllib2.urlopen(request).read().decode('utf-8')
-			except (urllib2.URLError, httplib.HTTPException, socket.error), err:
+			except (urllib2.URLError, httplib.HTTPException, socket.error) as err:
 				self._downloader.trouble(u'ERROR: unable to download webpage: %s' % str(err))
 				return
 
@@ -1997,7 +1997,7 @@ class DepositFilesIE(InfoExtractor):
 		try:
 			self.report_download_webpage(file_id)
 			webpage = urllib2.urlopen(request).read()
-		except (urllib2.URLError, httplib.HTTPException, socket.error), err:
+		except (urllib2.URLError, httplib.HTTPException, socket.error) as err:
 			self._downloader.trouble(u'ERROR: Unable to retrieve file webpage: %s' % compat_str(err))
 			return
 
@@ -2113,7 +2113,7 @@ class FacebookIE(InfoExtractor):
 					password = info[2]
 				else:
 					raise netrc.NetrcParseError('No authenticators for %s' % self._NETRC_MACHINE)
-			except (IOError, netrc.NetrcParseError), err:
+			except (IOError, netrc.NetrcParseError) as err:
 				self._downloader.to_stderr(u'WARNING: parsing .netrc: %s' % compat_str(err))
 				return
 
@@ -2133,7 +2133,7 @@ class FacebookIE(InfoExtractor):
 			if re.search(r'<form(.*)name="login"(.*)</form>', login_results) is not None:
 				self._downloader.to_stderr(u'WARNING: unable to log in: bad username/password, or exceded login rate limit (~3/min). Check credentials or wait.')
 				return
-		except (urllib2.URLError, httplib.HTTPException, socket.error), err:
+		except (urllib2.URLError, httplib.HTTPException, socket.error) as err:
 			self._downloader.to_stderr(u'WARNING: unable to log in: %s' % compat_str(err))
 			return
 
@@ -2150,7 +2150,7 @@ class FacebookIE(InfoExtractor):
 		try:
 			page = urllib2.urlopen(request)
 			video_webpage = page.read()
-		except (urllib2.URLError, httplib.HTTPException, socket.error), err:
+		except (urllib2.URLError, httplib.HTTPException, socket.error) as err:
 			self._downloader.trouble(u'ERROR: unable to download video webpage: %s' % compat_str(err))
 			return
 
@@ -2285,13 +2285,13 @@ class BlipTVIE(InfoExtractor):
 					'ext': ext,
 					'urlhandle': urlh
 				}
-		except (urllib2.URLError, httplib.HTTPException, socket.error), err:
+		except (urllib2.URLError, httplib.HTTPException, socket.error) as err:
 			self._downloader.trouble(u'ERROR: unable to download video info webpage: %s' % compat_str(err))
 			return
 		if info is None: # Regular URL
 			try:
 				json_code = urlh.read()
-			except (urllib2.URLError, httplib.HTTPException, socket.error), err:
+			except (urllib2.URLError, httplib.HTTPException, socket.error) as err:
 				self._downloader.trouble(u'ERROR: unable to read video info webpage: %s' % compat_str(err))
 				return
 
@@ -2321,7 +2321,7 @@ class BlipTVIE(InfoExtractor):
 					'description': data['description'],
 					'player_url': data['embedUrl']
 				}
-			except (ValueError,KeyError), err:
+			except (ValueError,KeyError) as err:
 				self._downloader.trouble(u'ERROR: unable to parse video information: %s' % repr(err))
 				return
 
@@ -2359,7 +2359,7 @@ class MyVideoIE(InfoExtractor):
 		try:
 			self.report_download_webpage(video_id)
 			webpage = urllib2.urlopen(request).read()
-		except (urllib2.URLError, httplib.HTTPException, socket.error), err:
+		except (urllib2.URLError, httplib.HTTPException, socket.error) as err:
 			self._downloader.trouble(u'ERROR: Unable to retrieve video webpage: %s' % compat_str(err))
 			return
 
@@ -2456,7 +2456,7 @@ class ComedyCentralIE(InfoExtractor):
 		try:
 			htmlHandle = urllib2.urlopen(req)
 			html = htmlHandle.read()
-		except (urllib2.URLError, httplib.HTTPException, socket.error), err:
+		except (urllib2.URLError, httplib.HTTPException, socket.error) as err:
 			self._downloader.trouble(u'ERROR: unable to download webpage: %s' % compat_str(err))
 			return
 		if dlNewest:
@@ -2489,7 +2489,7 @@ class ComedyCentralIE(InfoExtractor):
 		try:
 			urlHandle = urllib2.urlopen(playerUrl_raw)
 			playerUrl = urlHandle.geturl()
-		except (urllib2.URLError, httplib.HTTPException, socket.error), err:
+		except (urllib2.URLError, httplib.HTTPException, socket.error) as err:
 			self._downloader.trouble(u'ERROR: unable to find out player URL: ' + compat_str(err))
 			return
 
@@ -2498,7 +2498,7 @@ class ComedyCentralIE(InfoExtractor):
 		self.report_index_download(epTitle)
 		try:
 			indexXml = urllib2.urlopen(indexUrl).read()
-		except (urllib2.URLError, httplib.HTTPException, socket.error), err:
+		except (urllib2.URLError, httplib.HTTPException, socket.error) as err:
 			self._downloader.trouble(u'ERROR: unable to download episode index: ' + compat_str(err))
 			return
 
@@ -2519,7 +2519,7 @@ class ComedyCentralIE(InfoExtractor):
 			self.report_config_download(epTitle)
 			try:
 				configXml = urllib2.urlopen(configReq).read()
-			except (urllib2.URLError, httplib.HTTPException, socket.error), err:
+			except (urllib2.URLError, httplib.HTTPException, socket.error) as err:
 				self._downloader.trouble(u'ERROR: unable to download webpage: %s' % compat_str(err))
 				return
 
@@ -2602,7 +2602,7 @@ class EscapistIE(InfoExtractor):
 			webPageBytes = webPage.read()
 			m = re.match(r'text/html; charset="?([^"]+)"?', webPage.headers['Content-Type'])
 			webPage = webPageBytes.decode(m.group(1) if m else 'utf-8')
-		except (urllib2.URLError, httplib.HTTPException, socket.error), err:
+		except (urllib2.URLError, httplib.HTTPException, socket.error) as err:
 			self._downloader.trouble(u'ERROR: unable to download webpage: ' + compat_str(err))
 			return
 
@@ -2618,7 +2618,7 @@ class EscapistIE(InfoExtractor):
 		self.report_config_download(showName)
 		try:
 			configJSON = urllib2.urlopen(configUrl).read()
-		except (urllib2.URLError, httplib.HTTPException, socket.error), err:
+		except (urllib2.URLError, httplib.HTTPException, socket.error) as err:
 			self._downloader.trouble(u'ERROR: unable to download configuration: ' + compat_str(err))
 			return
 
@@ -2627,7 +2627,7 @@ class EscapistIE(InfoExtractor):
 
 		try:
 			config = json.loads(configJSON)
-		except (ValueError,), err:
+		except (ValueError,) as err:
 			self._downloader.trouble(u'ERROR: Invalid JSON in configuration file: ' + compat_str(err))
 			return
 
@@ -2674,7 +2674,7 @@ class CollegeHumorIE(InfoExtractor):
 		request = urllib2.Request(url)
 		try:
 			webpage = urllib2.urlopen(request).read()
-		except (urllib2.URLError, httplib.HTTPException, socket.error), err:
+		except (urllib2.URLError, httplib.HTTPException, socket.error) as err:
 			self._downloader.trouble(u'ERROR: unable to download video webpage: %s' % compat_str(err))
 			return
 
@@ -2695,7 +2695,7 @@ class CollegeHumorIE(InfoExtractor):
 		xmlUrl = 'http://www.collegehumor.com/moogaloop/video:' + internal_video_id
 		try:
 			metaXml = urllib2.urlopen(xmlUrl).read()
-		except (urllib2.URLError, httplib.HTTPException, socket.error), err:
+		except (urllib2.URLError, httplib.HTTPException, socket.error) as err:
 			self._downloader.trouble(u'ERROR: unable to download video info XML: %s' % compat_str(err))
 			return
 
@@ -2740,7 +2740,7 @@ class XVideosIE(InfoExtractor):
 		request = urllib2.Request(r'http://www.xvideos.com/video' + video_id)
 		try:
 			webpage = urllib2.urlopen(request).read()
-		except (urllib2.URLError, httplib.HTTPException, socket.error), err:
+		except (urllib2.URLError, httplib.HTTPException, socket.error) as err:
 			self._downloader.trouble(u'ERROR: unable to download video webpage: %s' % compat_str(err))
 			return
 
@@ -2824,7 +2824,7 @@ class SoundcloudIE(InfoExtractor):
 		request = urllib2.Request('http://soundcloud.com/%s/%s' % (uploader, slug_title))
 		try:
 			webpage = urllib2.urlopen(request).read()
-		except (urllib2.URLError, httplib.HTTPException, socket.error), err:
+		except (urllib2.URLError, httplib.HTTPException, socket.error) as err:
 			self._downloader.trouble(u'ERROR: unable to download video webpage: %s' % compat_str(err))
 			return
 
@@ -2901,7 +2901,7 @@ class InfoQIE(InfoExtractor):
 		request = urllib2.Request(url)
 		try:
 			webpage = urllib2.urlopen(request).read()
-		except (urllib2.URLError, httplib.HTTPException, socket.error), err:
+		except (urllib2.URLError, httplib.HTTPException, socket.error) as err:
 			self._downloader.trouble(u'ERROR: unable to download video webpage: %s' % compat_str(err))
 			return
 
@@ -2980,7 +2980,7 @@ class MixcloudIE(InfoExtractor):
 			try:
 				urllib2.urlopen(url)
 				return url
-			except (urllib2.URLError, httplib.HTTPException, socket.error), err:
+			except (urllib2.URLError, httplib.HTTPException, socket.error) as err:
 				url = None
 
 		return None
@@ -3013,7 +3013,7 @@ class MixcloudIE(InfoExtractor):
 		try:
 			self.report_download_json(file_url)
 			jsonData = urllib2.urlopen(request).read()
-		except (urllib2.URLError, httplib.HTTPException, socket.error), err:
+		except (urllib2.URLError, httplib.HTTPException, socket.error) as err:
 			self._downloader.trouble(u'ERROR: Unable to retrieve file: %s' % compat_str(err))
 			return
 
@@ -3092,7 +3092,7 @@ class StanfordOpenClassroomIE(InfoExtractor):
 			xmlUrl = baseUrl + video + '.xml'
 			try:
 				metaXml = urllib2.urlopen(xmlUrl).read()
-			except (urllib2.URLError, httplib.HTTPException, socket.error), err:
+			except (urllib2.URLError, httplib.HTTPException, socket.error) as err:
 				self._downloader.trouble(u'ERROR: unable to download video info XML: %s' % compat_str(err))
 				return
 			mdoc = xml.etree.ElementTree.fromstring(metaXml)
@@ -3116,7 +3116,7 @@ class StanfordOpenClassroomIE(InfoExtractor):
 			self.report_download_webpage(info['id'])
 			try:
 				coursepage = urllib2.urlopen(url).read()
-			except (urllib2.URLError, httplib.HTTPException, socket.error), err:
+			except (urllib2.URLError, httplib.HTTPException, socket.error) as err:
 				self._downloader.trouble(u'ERROR: unable to download course info page: ' + compat_str(err))
 				return
 
@@ -3155,7 +3155,7 @@ class StanfordOpenClassroomIE(InfoExtractor):
 			rootURL = 'http://openclassroom.stanford.edu/MainFolder/HomePage.php'
 			try:
 				rootpage = urllib2.urlopen(rootURL).read()
-			except (urllib2.URLError, httplib.HTTPException, socket.error), err:
+			except (urllib2.URLError, httplib.HTTPException, socket.error) as err:
 				self._downloader.trouble(u'ERROR: unable to download course info page: ' + compat_str(err))
 				return
 
@@ -3202,7 +3202,7 @@ class MTVIE(InfoExtractor):
 		request = urllib2.Request(url)
 		try:
 			webpage = urllib2.urlopen(request).read()
-		except (urllib2.URLError, httplib.HTTPException, socket.error), err:
+		except (urllib2.URLError, httplib.HTTPException, socket.error) as err:
 			self._downloader.trouble(u'ERROR: unable to download video webpage: %s' % compat_str(err))
 			return
 
@@ -3235,7 +3235,7 @@ class MTVIE(InfoExtractor):
 		request = urllib2.Request(videogen_url)
 		try:
 			metadataXml = urllib2.urlopen(request).read()
-		except (urllib2.URLError, httplib.HTTPException, socket.error), err:
+		except (urllib2.URLError, httplib.HTTPException, socket.error) as err:
 			self._downloader.trouble(u'ERROR: unable to download video metadata: %s' % compat_str(err))
 			return
 
@@ -3417,7 +3417,7 @@ class XNXXIE(InfoExtractor):
 		# Get webpage content
 		try:
 			webpage = urllib2.urlopen(url).read()
-		except (urllib2.URLError, httplib.HTTPException, socket.error), err:
+		except (urllib2.URLError, httplib.HTTPException, socket.error) as err:
 			self._downloader.trouble(u'ERROR: unable to download video webpage: %s' % err)
 			return
 
@@ -3497,7 +3497,7 @@ class GooglePlusIE(InfoExtractor):
 		request = urllib2.Request(post_url)
 		try:
 			webpage = urllib2.urlopen(request).read()
-		except (urllib2.URLError, httplib.HTTPException, socket.error), err:
+		except (urllib2.URLError, httplib.HTTPException, socket.error) as err:
 			self._downloader.trouble(u'ERROR: Unable to retrieve entry webpage: %s' % compat_str(err))
 			return
 
@@ -3539,7 +3539,7 @@ class GooglePlusIE(InfoExtractor):
 		request = urllib2.Request(video_page)
 		try:
 			webpage = urllib2.urlopen(request).read()
-		except (urllib2.URLError, httplib.HTTPException, socket.error), err:
+		except (urllib2.URLError, httplib.HTTPException, socket.error) as err:
 			self._downloader.trouble(u'ERROR: Unable to retrieve video webpage: %s' % compat_str(err))
 			return
 		self.report_extract_vid_page(video_page)
diff --git a/youtube_dl/__init__.py b/youtube_dl/__init__.py
index 54c7d7f72..7bc49ff7a 100644
--- a/youtube_dl/__init__.py
+++ b/youtube_dl/__init__.py
@@ -74,7 +74,7 @@ def updateSelf(downloader, filename):
 			urlh.close()
 			with open(exe + '.new', 'wb') as outf:
 				outf.write(newcontent)
-		except (IOError, OSError), err:
+		except (IOError, OSError) as err:
 			sys.exit('ERROR: unable to download latest version')
 
 		try:
@@ -89,7 +89,7 @@ del "%s"
 			b.close()
 
 			os.startfile(bat)
-		except (IOError, OSError), err:
+		except (IOError, OSError) as err:
 			sys.exit('ERROR: unable to overwrite current version')
 
 	else:
@@ -97,13 +97,13 @@ del "%s"
 			urlh = urllib2.urlopen(UPDATE_URL)
 			newcontent = urlh.read()
 			urlh.close()
-		except (IOError, OSError), err:
+		except (IOError, OSError) as err:
 			sys.exit('ERROR: unable to download latest version')
 
 		try:
 			with open(filename, 'wb') as outf:
 				outf.write(newcontent)
-		except (IOError, OSError), err:
+		except (IOError, OSError) as err:
 			sys.exit('ERROR: unable to overwrite current version')
 
 	downloader.to_screen(u'Updated youtube-dl. Restart youtube-dl to use the new version.')
@@ -386,7 +386,7 @@ def _real_main():
 			jar = cookielib.MozillaCookieJar(opts.cookiefile)
 			if os.path.isfile(opts.cookiefile) and os.access(opts.cookiefile, os.R_OK):
 				jar.load()
-		except (IOError, OSError), err:
+		except (IOError, OSError) as err:
 			sys.exit(u'ERROR: unable to open cookie file')
 	# Set user agent
 	if opts.user_agent is not None:
@@ -394,7 +394,7 @@ def _real_main():
 
 	# Dump user agent
 	if opts.dump_user_agent:
-		print std_headers['User-Agent']
+		print(std_headers['User-Agent'])
 		sys.exit(0)
 
 	# Batch file verification
@@ -450,7 +450,7 @@ def _real_main():
 	if opts.retries is not None:
 		try:
 			opts.retries = int(opts.retries)
-		except (TypeError, ValueError), err:
+		except (TypeError, ValueError) as err:
 			parser.error(u'invalid retry count specified')
 	if opts.buffersize is not None:
 		numeric_buffersize = FileDownloader.parse_bytes(opts.buffersize)
@@ -461,13 +461,13 @@ def _real_main():
 		opts.playliststart = int(opts.playliststart)
 		if opts.playliststart <= 0:
 			raise ValueError(u'Playlist start must be positive')
-	except (TypeError, ValueError), err:
+	except (TypeError, ValueError) as err:
 		parser.error(u'invalid playlist start number specified')
 	try:
 		opts.playlistend = int(opts.playlistend)
 		if opts.playlistend != -1 and (opts.playlistend <= 0 or opts.playlistend < opts.playliststart):
 			raise ValueError(u'Playlist end must be greater than playlist start')
-	except (TypeError, ValueError), err:
+	except (TypeError, ValueError) as err:
 		parser.error(u'invalid playlist end number specified')
 	if opts.extractaudio:
 		if opts.audioformat not in ['best', 'aac', 'mp3', 'vorbis', 'm4a', 'wav']:
@@ -559,7 +559,7 @@ def _real_main():
 	if opts.cookiefile is not None:
 		try:
 			jar.save()
-		except (IOError, OSError), err:
+		except (IOError, OSError) as err:
 			sys.exit(u'ERROR: unable to save cookie jar')
 
 	sys.exit(retcode)
diff --git a/youtube_dl/utils.py b/youtube_dl/utils.py
index 4d098a377..29e1b0e97 100644
--- a/youtube_dl/utils.py
+++ b/youtube_dl/utils.py
@@ -177,7 +177,7 @@ def sanitize_open(filename, open_mode):
 			return (sys.stdout, filename)
 		stream = open(encodeFilename(filename), open_mode)
 		return (stream, filename)
-	except (IOError, OSError), err:
+	except (IOError, OSError) as err:
 		# In case of error, try to remove win32 forbidden chars
 		filename = re.sub(ur'[/<>:"\|\?\*]', u'#', filename)