From 7c4621a01094b90f2be1e0aa76e551504780ba6a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: David Wilson <dw@botanicus.net>
Date: Mon, 22 Jul 2019 21:35:44 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] [stream-refactor] make syntax 2.4 compatible

---
 mitogen/core.py | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/mitogen/core.py b/mitogen/core.py
index 6c6f1ec2..5fe01812 100644
--- a/mitogen/core.py
+++ b/mitogen/core.py
@@ -3217,7 +3217,8 @@ class Broker(object):
 
             fire(self, 'shutdown')
             self._broker_shutdown()
-        except Exception as e:
+        except Exception:
+            e = sys.exc_info()[1]
             LOG.exception('broker crashed')
             syslog.syslog(syslog.LOG_ERR, 'broker crashed: %s' % (e,))
             syslog.closelog()  # prevent test 'fd leak'.