--- a/DSV/DSV.py
+++ b/DSV/DSV.py
@@ -128,7 +128,6 @@ import sys
 # import pre as re # sre was broken, appears okay now. Try this if there are problems.
 import re 
 import copy
-import exceptions
 import string
 ## RedHat 8.0 (or rather GTK2?) sets LANG = en_us.UTF-8 and apparently some
 ## older apps (including wxGTK) can't handle this.  The fix is to set LANG=C
@@ -147,10 +146,10 @@ try:
 except ImportError:
     wx = None
 
-class InvalidDelimiter(exceptions.StandardError): pass
-class InvalidTextQualifier(exceptions.StandardError): pass
-class InvalidData(exceptions.StandardError): pass
-class InvalidNumberOfColumns(exceptions.StandardError): pass
+class InvalidDelimiter(StandardError): pass
+class InvalidTextQualifier(StandardError): pass
+class InvalidData(StandardError): pass
+class InvalidNumberOfColumns(StandardError): pass
 
 # ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 def guessTextQualifier(input):