diff --git a/CHANGES b/CHANGES
index 89bc6c8aeb..b2c6fa2b89 100644
--- a/CHANGES
+++ b/CHANGES
@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@ Features added
 Bugs fixed
 ----------
 
+* Now sphinx.ext.autodoc work with python-2.5 again.
 * #1563: :meth:`~sphinx.application.Sphinx.add_search_language` raises
   AssertionError for correct type of argument. Thanks to rikoman.
 * #1568: fix a crash when a "centered" directive contains a reference.
diff --git a/sphinx/ext/autodoc.py b/sphinx/ext/autodoc.py
index 423f921a24..b4ecf32fd9 100644
--- a/sphinx/ext/autodoc.py
+++ b/sphinx/ext/autodoc.py
@@ -347,7 +347,7 @@ class Documenter(object):
             return True
         # this used to only catch SyntaxError, ImportError and AttributeError,
         # but importing modules with side effects can raise all kinds of errors
-        except (Exception, SystemExit) as e:
+        except (Exception, SystemExit), e:
             if self.objpath:
                 errmsg = 'autodoc: failed to import %s %r from module %r' % \
                          (self.objtype, '.'.join(self.objpath), self.modname)