diff --git a/sphinx/pycode/pgen2/tokenize.py b/sphinx/pycode/pgen2/tokenize.py
index 46ee7842b..3a0478e05 100644
--- a/sphinx/pycode/pgen2/tokenize.py
+++ b/sphinx/pycode/pgen2/tokenize.py
@@ -279,7 +279,7 @@ def generate_tokens(readline):
 
         if contstr:                            # continued string
             if not line:
-                raise TokenError, ("EOF in multi-line string", strstart)
+                raise TokenError("EOF in multi-line string", strstart)
             endmatch = endprog.match(line)
             if endmatch:
                 pos = end = endmatch.end(0)
@@ -335,7 +335,7 @@ def generate_tokens(readline):
 
         else:                                  # continued statement
             if not line:
-                raise TokenError, ("EOF in multi-line statement", (lnum, 0))
+                raise TokenError("EOF in multi-line statement", (lnum, 0))
             continued = 0
 
         while pos < max: