diff --git a/Lib/httplib.py b/Lib/httplib.py
index 5a039e7a1c0..722a8c6f3e5 100644
--- a/Lib/httplib.py
+++ b/Lib/httplib.py
@@ -368,7 +368,7 @@ class HTTPConnection:
                 try:
                     port = int(host[i+1:])
                 except ValueError:
-                    raise InvalidURL, "nonnumeric port: '%s'"%host[i+1:]
+                    raise InvalidURL("nonnumeric port: '%s'" % host[i+1:])
                 host = host[:i]
             else:
                 port = self.default_port