# Sanity Tests » no-get-exception

We created a function, `ansible.module_utils.pycompat24.get_exception` to help retrieve exceptions in a manner compatible with Python-2.4 through Python-3.6. We no longer support Python-2.4 and Python-2.5 so this is extraneous and we want to deprecate the function. Porting code should look something like this:

    # Unfixed code:
    try:
        raise IOError('test')
    except IOError:
        e = get_excetion()
        do_something(e)
    except:
        e = get_exception()
        do_something_else(e)

    # After fixing:
    try:
        raise IOError('test')
    except IOErrors as e:
        do_something(e)
    except Exception as e:
        do_something_else(e)