Some Python-3 module_utils support

lib/ansible/module_utils/pycompat.py

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+# Copyright (c) 2016, Toshio Kuratomi <tkuratomi@ansible.com>
+# Copyright (c) 2015, Marius Gedminas
+#
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+
+import sys
+
+def get_exception():
+    """Get the current exception.
+
+    This code needs to work on Python 2.4 through 3.x, so we cannot use
+    "except Exception, e:" (SyntaxError on Python 3.x) nor
+    "except Exception as e:" (SyntaxError on Python 2.4-2.5).
+    Instead we must use ::
+
+        except Exception:
+            e = get_exception()
+
+    """
+    return sys.exc_info()[1]