No need to import exceptions, they are builtins

Lib/asyncore.py

@@ -46,7 +46,6 @@
 sophisticated high-performance network servers and clients a snap.
 """
 
-import exceptions
 import select
 import socket
 import sys
@@ -61,7 +60,7 @@
 except NameError:
     socket_map = {}
 
-class ExitNow(exceptions.Exception):
+class ExitNow(Exception):
     pass
 
 def read(obj):

Lib/encodings/__init__.py

@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@
 
 """#"
 
-import codecs, exceptions, types, aliases
+import codecs, types, aliases
 
 _cache = {}
 _unknown = '--unknown--'
@@ -40,8 +40,7 @@
                       '                ')
 _aliases = aliases.aliases
 
-class CodecRegistryError(exceptions.LookupError,
-                         exceptions.SystemError):
+class CodecRegistryError(LookupError, SystemError):
     pass
 
 def normalize_encoding(encoding):

Lib/shutil.py

@@ -7,13 +7,12 @@
 import os
 import sys
 import stat
-import exceptions
 from os.path import abspath
 
 __all__ = ["copyfileobj","copyfile","copymode","copystat","copy","copy2",
            "copytree","move","rmtree","Error"]
 
-class Error(exceptions.EnvironmentError):
+class Error(EnvironmentError):
     pass
 
 def copyfileobj(fsrc, fdst, length=16*1024):