diff --git a/puppetboard/utils.py b/puppetboard/utils.py
index 03ecb85..608fbae 100644
--- a/puppetboard/utils.py
+++ b/puppetboard/utils.py
@@ -1,55 +1,55 @@
 from __future__ import absolute_import
 from __future__ import unicode_literals
 
 import json
 
 from requests.exceptions import HTTPError, ConnectionError
 from pypuppetdb.errors import EmptyResponseError
 
 from flask import abort
 
 def jsonprint(value):
   return json.dumps(value, indent=2, separators=(',', ': ') )
 
 
 def get_or_abort(func, *args, **kwargs):
     """Execute the function with its arguments and handle the possible
     errors that might occur.
 
     In this case, if we get an exception we simply abort the request.
     """
     try:
         return func(*args, **kwargs)
-    except HTTPError, e:
+    except HTTPError as e:
         abort(e.response.status_code)
     except ConnectionError:
         abort(500)
     except EmptyResponseError:
         abort(204)
 
 
 def ten_reports(reports):
     """Helper to yield the first then reports from the reports generator.
 
     This is an ugly solution at best...
     """
     for count, report in enumerate(reports):
         if count == 10:
             raise StopIteration
         yield report
 
 
 def yield_or_stop(generator):
     """Similar in intent to get_or_abort this helper will iterate over our
     generators and handle certain errors.
 
     Since this is also used in streaming responses where we can't just abort
     a request we raise StopIteration.
     """
     while True:
         try:
             yield next(generator)
         except StopIteration:
             raise
         except (EmptyResponseError, ConnectionError, HTTPError):
             raise StopIteration