Index: Lib/SimpleXMLRPCServer.py
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--- Lib/SimpleXMLRPCServer.py	(revision 50844)
+++ Lib/SimpleXMLRPCServer.py	(working copy)
@@ -264,8 +264,9 @@
                                        encoding=self.encoding)
         except:
             # report exception back to server
+            exc_type, exc_value, exc_tb = sys.exc_info()
             response = xmlrpclib.dumps(
-                xmlrpclib.Fault(1, "%s:%s" % (sys.exc_type, sys.exc_value)),
+                xmlrpclib.Fault(1, "%s:%s" % (exc_type, exc_value)),
                 encoding=self.encoding, allow_none=self.allow_none,
                 )
 
@@ -364,9 +365,10 @@
                      'faultString' : fault.faultString}
                     )
             except:
+                exc_type, exc_value, exc_tb = sys.exc_info()
                 results.append(
                     {'faultCode' : 1,
-                     'faultString' : "%s:%s" % (sys.exc_type, sys.exc_value)}
+                     'faultString' : "%s:%s" % (exc_type, exc_value)}
                     )
         return results