diff --git a/Lib/SimpleXMLRPCServer.py b/Lib/SimpleXMLRPCServer.py
index 7a9f26faaab..53ad9c5d220 100644
--- a/Lib/SimpleXMLRPCServer.py
+++ b/Lib/SimpleXMLRPCServer.py
@@ -264,8 +264,9 @@ def _marshaled_dispatch(self, data, dispatch_method = None):
                                        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 @@ def system_multicall(self, call_list):
                      '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