[toward-py3k] rewrite to "except AnException as exc:" (part of #2711624)
The older form is not necessary since we dropped python 2.5 compability. This
will help Python 3.3 experimentation.
# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
# copyright %(year)s %(author)s, all rights reserved.
# contact %(author-web-site)s -- mailto:%(author-email)s
#
%(long-license)s
"""%(distname)s specific hooks and operations"""