diff --git a/lib/ansible/modules/extras/network/dnsimple.py b/lib/ansible/modules/extras/network/dnsimple.py
index 0825f4ba30..ec7478d7e2 100644
--- a/lib/ansible/modules/extras/network/dnsimple.py
+++ b/lib/ansible/modules/extras/network/dnsimple.py
@@ -294,12 +294,14 @@ def main():
             else:
                 module.fail_json(msg="'%s' is an unknown value for the state argument" % state)
 
-    except DNSimpleException, e:
+    except DNSimpleException:
+        e = get_exception()
         module.fail_json(msg="Unable to contact DNSimple: %s" % e.message)
 
     module.fail_json(msg="Unknown what you wanted me to do")
 
 # import module snippets
 from ansible.module_utils.basic import *
+from ansible.module_utils.pycompat24 import get_exception
 
 main()
diff --git a/lib/ansible/modules/extras/test/utils/shippable/sanity-skip-python3.txt b/lib/ansible/modules/extras/test/utils/shippable/sanity-skip-python3.txt
index a8bbef1cc3..c7ed2636df 100644
--- a/lib/ansible/modules/extras/test/utils/shippable/sanity-skip-python3.txt
+++ b/lib/ansible/modules/extras/test/utils/shippable/sanity-skip-python3.txt
@@ -62,7 +62,6 @@
 /monitoring/zabbix_screen.py
 /network/citrix/netscaler.py
 /network/cloudflare_dns.py
-/network/dnsimple.py
 /network/dnsmadeeasy.py
 /network/f5/bigip_gtm_virtual_server.py
 /network/f5/bigip_gtm_wide_ip.py