diff --git a/scrapy/trunk/scrapy/contrib/pbcluster/worker/manager.py b/scrapy/trunk/scrapy/contrib/pbcluster/worker/manager.py
index cb4940a0f..d95a0c2cc 100644
--- a/scrapy/trunk/scrapy/contrib/pbcluster/worker/manager.py
+++ b/scrapy/trunk/scrapy/contrib/pbcluster/worker/manager.py
@@ -46,7 +46,7 @@ class ScrapyProcessProtocol(protocol.ProcessProtocol):
                         f_out.writelines(f_in)
                 os.remove(self.logfile)
                 self.logfile = "%s.gz" % self.logfile
-            except e:
+            except Exception as e:
                 log.msg("failed to compress %s exception=%s (domain=%s, pid=%s)" % (self.logfile, e, self.domain, self.pid))
         log.msg("ClusterWorker: finished domain=%s, pid=%d, log=%s" % (self.domain, self.pid, self.logfile))
         log.msg("Reason type: %s. value: %s" % (reason.type, reason.value) )