diff --git a/tests/regressiontests/templates/tests.py b/tests/regressiontests/templates/tests.py
index 5eeaa5a430b..4ccf9d0c471 100644
--- a/tests/regressiontests/templates/tests.py
+++ b/tests/regressiontests/templates/tests.py
@@ -154,24 +154,24 @@ class Templates(unittest.TestCase):
         self.assertEqual(split, ["sometag", '_("Page not found")', 'value|yesno:_("yes,no")'])
 
     def test_url_reverse_no_settings_module(self):
-        #Regression test for #9005
+        # Regression test for #9005
         from django.template import Template, Context, TemplateSyntaxError
-        
+
         old_settings_module = settings.SETTINGS_MODULE
         old_template_debug = settings.TEMPLATE_DEBUG
-        
+
         settings.SETTINGS_MODULE = None
         settings.TEMPLATE_DEBUG = True
-        
+
         t = Template('{% url will_not_match %}')
         c = Context()
         try:
             rendered = t.render(c)
         except TemplateSyntaxError, e:
-            #Assert that we are getting the template syntax error and not the
-            #string encoding error.
-            self.assertEquals(e.message, "Caught an exception while rendering: Reverse for 'will_not_match' with arguments '()' and keyword arguments '{}' not found.")
-        
+            # Assert that we are getting the template syntax error and not the
+            # string encoding error.
+            self.assertEquals(e.args[0], "Caught an exception while rendering: Reverse for 'will_not_match' with arguments '()' and keyword arguments '{}' not found.")
+
         settings.SETTINGS_MODULE = old_settings_module
         settings.TEMPLATE_DEBUG = old_template_debug
 
@@ -931,7 +931,7 @@ class Templates(unittest.TestCase):
             'widthratio08': ('{% widthratio %}', {}, template.TemplateSyntaxError),
             'widthratio09': ('{% widthratio a b %}', {'a':50,'b':100}, template.TemplateSyntaxError),
             'widthratio10': ('{% widthratio a b 100.0 %}', {'a':50,'b':100}, '50'),
-            
+
             # #10043: widthratio should allow max_width to be a variable
             'widthratio11': ('{% widthratio a b c %}', {'a':50,'b':100, 'c': 100}, '50'),