diff --git a/scrapy/contracts/__init__.py b/scrapy/contracts/__init__.py
index c62df5ab0..18c59ff22 100644
--- a/scrapy/contracts/__init__.py
+++ b/scrapy/contracts/__init__.py
@@ -44,7 +44,7 @@ class ContractsManager(object):
             bound_method = spider.__getattribute__(method)
             try:
                 requests.append(self.from_method(bound_method, results))
-            except:
+            except Exception:
                 case = _create_testcase(bound_method, 'contract')
                 results.addError(case, sys.exc_info())