diff --git a/wicd/configmanager.py b/wicd/configmanager.py
index 9a16d64..1627abc 100644
--- a/wicd/configmanager.py
+++ b/wicd/configmanager.py
@@ -85,7 +85,7 @@ class ConfigManager(ConfigParser):
         # Try to intelligently handle the type of the return value.
         try:
             ret = int(ret)
-        except ValueError, TypeError:
+        except (ValueError, TypeError):
             ret = stringToNone(ret)
         return ret