diff --git a/openerp/report/custom.py b/openerp/report/custom.py
index d06f2d721f7..a03ae0b8a53 100644
--- a/openerp/report/custom.py
+++ b/openerp/report/custom.py
@@ -267,7 +267,7 @@ class report_custom(report_int):
                     else:
                         try:
                             row.append(float(r[j]))
-                        except:
+                        except Exception:
                             row.append(r[j])
                 results2.append(row)
             if report['type']=='pie':
diff --git a/openerp/report/interface.py b/openerp/report/interface.py
index 9a97c445671..69474a18433 100644
--- a/openerp/report/interface.py
+++ b/openerp/report/interface.py
@@ -44,8 +44,8 @@ class report_int(netsvc.Service):
     def __init__(self, name):
         assert not self.exists(name), 'The report "%s" already exists!' % name
         super(report_int, self).__init__(name)
-        if name[0:7]<>'report.':
-            raise Exception, 'ConceptionError, bad report name, should start with "report."'
+        if not name.startswith('report.'):
+            raise Exception('ConceptionError, bad report name, should start with "report."')
         self.name = name
         self.id = 0
         self.name2 = '.'.join(name.split('.')[1:])
diff --git a/openerp/report/preprocess.py b/openerp/report/preprocess.py
index e681860d7a2..93b6b4d1bc9 100644
--- a/openerp/report/preprocess.py
+++ b/openerp/report/preprocess.py
@@ -48,7 +48,7 @@ class report(object):
                         try:
                             while n.tag != txt.group(3):
                                 n = n.getparent()
-                        except:
+                        except Exception:
                             n = node
                     else:
                         n = node.getparent()
diff --git a/openerp/report/printscreen/ps_list.py b/openerp/report/printscreen/ps_list.py
index dc280a53e3e..8f0629462f8 100644
--- a/openerp/report/printscreen/ps_list.py
+++ b/openerp/report/printscreen/ps_list.py
@@ -56,7 +56,7 @@ class report_printscreen_list(report_int):
     def _parse_string(self, view):
         try:
             dom = etree.XML(view.encode('utf-8'))
-        except:
+        except Exception:
             dom = etree.XML(view)
         return self._parse_node(dom)
 
diff --git a/openerp/report/render/rml2html/rml2html.py b/openerp/report/render/rml2html/rml2html.py
index 504492772df..a26f6eadaa6 100644
--- a/openerp/report/render/rml2html/rml2html.py
+++ b/openerp/report/render/rml2html/rml2html.py
@@ -98,7 +98,7 @@ class _flowable(object):
                     try:
                         if new_child.get('style').find('terp_tblheader')!= -1:
                             new_node.tag = 'th'
-                    except:
+                    except Exception:
                         pass
         process(node,new_node)
         if new_node.get('colWidths',False):
diff --git a/openerp/report/render/rml2pdf/trml2pdf.py b/openerp/report/render/rml2pdf/trml2pdf.py
index 96287166074..58457993142 100644
--- a/openerp/report/render/rml2pdf/trml2pdf.py
+++ b/openerp/report/render/rml2pdf/trml2pdf.py
@@ -424,7 +424,7 @@ class _rml_canvas(object):
                 flow.drawOn(self.canvas,infos['x'],infos['y'])
                 infos['height']-=h
             else:
-                raise ValueError, "Not enough space"
+                raise ValueError("Not enough space")
 
     def _line_mode(self, node):
         ljoin = {'round':1, 'mitered':0, 'bevelled':2}
diff --git a/openerp/report/render/rml2txt/utils.py b/openerp/report/render/rml2txt/utils.py
index c08210ecc79..95e99c32ce1 100644
--- a/openerp/report/render/rml2txt/utils.py
+++ b/openerp/report/render/rml2txt/utils.py
@@ -37,7 +37,7 @@ def _child_get(node, self=None, tagname=None):
                     if n.get('rml_except', False):
                         try:
                             eval(n.get('rml_except'), {}, self.localcontext)
-                        except:
+                        except Exception:
                             continue
                     if n.get('rml_tag'):
                         try:
@@ -46,7 +46,7 @@ def _child_get(node, self=None, tagname=None):
                             n2.tag = tag
                             n2.attrib.update(attr)
                             yield n2
-                        except:
+                        except Exception:
                             yield n
                     else:
                         yield n
@@ -55,7 +55,7 @@ def _child_get(node, self=None, tagname=None):
         if self and self.localcontext and n.get('rml_except', False):
             try:
                 eval(n.get('rml_except'), {}, self.localcontext)
-            except:
+            except Exception:
                 continue
         if (tagname is None) or (n.tag==tagname):
             yield n
@@ -73,7 +73,7 @@ def _process_text(self, txt):
             if sps:
                 try:
                     txt2 = eval(sps.pop(0),self.localcontext)
-                except:
+                except Exception:
                     txt2 = ''
                 if isinstance(txt2, (int, float)):
                     txt2 = str(txt2)