diff --git a/.travis.yml b/.travis.yml
index 25396c56589..53bb90c7f77 100644
--- a/.travis.yml
+++ b/.travis.yml
@@ -22,8 +22,8 @@ script:
   - python2.4 -m compileall -fq cloud/amazon/_ec2_ami_search.py cloud/amazon/ec2_facts.py
   - python2.6 -m compileall -fq .
   - python2.7 -m compileall -fq .
-  - python3.4 -m compileall -fq system/ commands/ source_control/ inventory/
-  - python3.5 -m compileall -fq system/ commands/ source_control/ inventory/
+  - python3.4 -m compileall -fq system/ commands/ source_control/ inventory/ files/
+  - python3.5 -m compileall -fq system/ commands/ source_control/ inventory/ files/
   - ansible-validate-modules --exclude 'utilities/' .
     #- ansible-validate-modules --exclude 'cloud/amazon/ec2_lc\.py|cloud/amazon/ec2_scaling_policy\.py|cloud/amazon/ec2_scaling_policy\.py|cloud/amazon/ec2_asg\.py|cloud/azure/azure\.py|packaging/os/rhn_register\.py|network/openswitch/ops_template\.py|system/hostname\.py|utilities/' .
   #- ./test-docs.sh core
diff --git a/files/acl.py b/files/acl.py
index d0de9c6d6b5..44ebedec42c 100644
--- a/files/acl.py
+++ b/files/acl.py
@@ -206,7 +206,8 @@ def run_acl(module, cmd, check_rc=True):
 
     try:
         (rc, out, err) = module.run_command(' '.join(cmd), check_rc=check_rc)
-    except Exception, e:
+    except Exception:
+        e = get_exception()
         module.fail_json(msg=e.strerror)
 
     lines = out.splitlines()
diff --git a/files/assemble.py b/files/assemble.py
index 9f92e0209d3..aaed539644c 100644
--- a/files/assemble.py
+++ b/files/assemble.py
@@ -156,7 +156,8 @@ def cleanup(path, result=None):
     if os.path.exists(path):
         try:
             os.remove(path)
-        except (IOError, OSError), e:
+        except (IOError, OSError):
+            e = get_exception()
             # don't error on possible race conditions, but keep warning
             if result is not None:
                 result['warnings'] = ['Unable to remove temp file (%s): %s' % (path, str(e))]
@@ -203,7 +204,8 @@ def main():
     if regexp != None:
         try:
             compiled_regexp = re.compile(regexp)
-        except re.error, e:
+        except re.error:
+            e = get_exception()
             module.fail_json(msg="Invalid Regexp (%s) in \"%s\"" % (e, regexp))
 
     if validate and "%s" not in validate:
diff --git a/files/copy.py b/files/copy.py
index e80ea32ede2..5eacdd723ae 100644
--- a/files/copy.py
+++ b/files/copy.py
@@ -291,7 +291,8 @@ def main():
                 # the execute bit for the current user set, in
                 # which case the stat() call will raise an OSError
                 os.stat(os.path.dirname(dest))
-            except OSError, e:
+            except OSError:
+                e = get_exception()
                 if "permission denied" in str(e).lower():
                     module.fail_json(msg="Destination directory %s is not accessible" % (os.path.dirname(dest)))
             module.fail_json(msg="Destination directory %s does not exist" % (os.path.dirname(dest)))
diff --git a/files/file.py b/files/file.py
index 379418aa343..41deca0ce2e 100644
--- a/files/file.py
+++ b/files/file.py
@@ -250,12 +250,14 @@ def main():
                 if prev_state == 'directory':
                     try:
                         shutil.rmtree(path, ignore_errors=False)
-                    except Exception, e:
+                    except Exception:
+                        e = get_exception()
                         module.fail_json(msg="rmtree failed: %s" % str(e))
                 else:
                     try:
                         os.unlink(path)
-                    except Exception, e:
+                    except Exception:
+                        e = get_exception()
                         module.fail_json(path=path, msg="unlinking failed: %s " % str(e))
             module.exit_json(path=path, changed=True, diff=diff)
         else:
@@ -301,7 +303,8 @@ def main():
                     if not os.path.exists(curpath):
                         try:
                             os.mkdir(curpath)
-                        except OSError, ex:
+                        except OSError:
+                            ex = get_exception()
                             # Possibly something else created the dir since the os.path.exists
                             # check above. As long as it's a dir, we don't need to error out.
                             if not (ex.errno == errno.EEXIST and os.path.isdir(curpath)):
@@ -309,7 +312,8 @@ def main():
                         tmp_file_args = file_args.copy()
                         tmp_file_args['path']=curpath
                         changed = module.set_fs_attributes_if_different(tmp_file_args, changed, diff)
-            except Exception, e:
+            except Exception:
+                e = get_exception()
                 module.fail_json(path=path, msg='There was an issue creating %s as requested: %s' % (curpath, str(e)))
 
         # We already know prev_state is not 'absent', therefore it exists in some form.
@@ -376,7 +380,8 @@ def main():
                     else:
                         os.symlink(src, tmppath)
                     os.rename(tmppath, path)
-                except OSError, e:
+                except OSError:
+                    e = get_exception()
                     if os.path.exists(tmppath):
                         os.unlink(tmppath)
                     module.fail_json(path=path, msg='Error while replacing: %s' % str(e))
@@ -386,7 +391,8 @@ def main():
                         os.link(src,path)
                     else:
                         os.symlink(src, path)
-                except OSError, e:
+                except OSError:
+                    e = get_exception()
                     module.fail_json(path=path, msg='Error while linking: %s' % str(e))
 
         if module.check_mode and not os.path.exists(path):
@@ -401,18 +407,21 @@ def main():
             if prev_state == 'absent':
                 try:
                     open(path, 'w').close()
-                except OSError, e:
+                except OSError:
+                    e = get_exception()
                     module.fail_json(path=path, msg='Error, could not touch target: %s' % str(e))
             elif prev_state in ['file', 'directory', 'hard']:
                 try:
                     os.utime(path, None)
-                except OSError, e:
+                except OSError:
+                    e = get_exception()
                     module.fail_json(path=path, msg='Error while touching existing target: %s' % str(e))
             else:
                 module.fail_json(msg='Cannot touch other than files, directories, and hardlinks (%s is %s)' % (path, prev_state))
             try:
                 module.set_fs_attributes_if_different(file_args, True, diff)
-            except SystemExit, e:
+            except SystemExit:
+                e = get_exception()
                 if e.code:
                     # We take this to mean that fail_json() was called from
                     # somewhere in basic.py
diff --git a/files/stat.py b/files/stat.py
index f14717ca103..e2b534c4ec4 100644
--- a/files/stat.py
+++ b/files/stat.py
@@ -326,7 +326,8 @@ def main():
             st = os.stat(path)
         else:
             st = os.lstat(path)
-    except OSError, e:
+    except OSError:
+        e = get_exception()
         if e.errno == errno.ENOENT:
             d = { 'exists' : False }
             module.exit_json(changed=False, stat=d)
diff --git a/files/unarchive.py b/files/unarchive.py
index 9377a5931f4..d2d7b97a52b 100644
--- a/files/unarchive.py
+++ b/files/unarchive.py
@@ -695,7 +695,8 @@ def main():
                     f.write(data)
                 f.close()
                 src = package
-            except Exception, e:
+            except Exception:
+                e = get_exception()
                 module.fail_json(msg="Failure downloading %s, %s" % (src, e))
         else:
             module.fail_json(msg="Source '%s' does not exist" % src)
@@ -706,7 +707,8 @@ def main():
     try:
         if os.path.getsize(src) == 0:
             module.fail_json(msg="Invalid archive '%s', the file is 0 bytes" % src)
-    except Exception, e:
+    except Exception:
+        e = get_exception()
         module.fail_json(msg="Source '%s' not readable" % src)
 
     # is dest OK to receive tar file?
@@ -746,7 +748,8 @@ def main():
             file_args['path'] = os.path.join(dest, filename)
             try:
                 res_args['changed'] = module.set_fs_attributes_if_different(file_args, res_args['changed'])
-            except (IOError, OSError), e:
+            except (IOError, OSError):
+                e = get_exception()
                 module.fail_json(msg="Unexpected error when accessing exploded file: %s" % str(e))
 
     if module.params['list_files']:
diff --git a/files/xattr.py b/files/xattr.py
index 519fb4d0f26..378665477cf 100644
--- a/files/xattr.py
+++ b/files/xattr.py
@@ -124,7 +124,8 @@ def _run_xattr(module,cmd,check_rc=True):
 
     try:
         (rc, out, err) = module.run_command(' '.join(cmd), check_rc=check_rc)
-    except Exception, e:
+    except Exception:
+        e = get_exception()
         module.fail_json(msg="%s!" % e.strerror)
 
     #result = {'raw': out}