diff --git a/lib/ansible/modules/extras/monitoring/bigpanda.py b/lib/ansible/modules/extras/monitoring/bigpanda.py
index 80bb5aec947..86b64762772 100644
--- a/lib/ansible/modules/extras/monitoring/bigpanda.py
+++ b/lib/ansible/modules/extras/monitoring/bigpanda.py
@@ -170,11 +170,13 @@ def main():
             module.exit_json(changed=True, **deployment)
         else:
             module.fail_json(msg=json.dumps(info))
-    except Exception, e:
+    except Exception:
+        e = get_exception()
         module.fail_json(msg=str(e))
 
 # import module snippets
 from ansible.module_utils.basic import *
 from ansible.module_utils.urls import *
+from ansible.module_utils.pycompat24 import get_exception
 if __name__ == '__main__':
     main()
diff --git a/lib/ansible/modules/extras/test/utils/shippable/sanity-skip-python3.txt b/lib/ansible/modules/extras/test/utils/shippable/sanity-skip-python3.txt
index 052bf355ca0..a15dd20926e 100644
--- a/lib/ansible/modules/extras/test/utils/shippable/sanity-skip-python3.txt
+++ b/lib/ansible/modules/extras/test/utils/shippable/sanity-skip-python3.txt
@@ -45,7 +45,6 @@
 /database/vertica/vertica_role.py
 /database/vertica/vertica_schema.py
 /database/vertica/vertica_user.py
-/monitoring/bigpanda.py
 /monitoring/boundary_meter.py
 /monitoring/circonus_annotation.py
 /monitoring/datadog_monitor.py