diff --git a/Dev/Nagios/thruk.py b/Dev/Nagios/thruk.py
index b90468329..08cc66edf 100755
--- a/Dev/Nagios/thruk.py
+++ b/Dev/Nagios/thruk.py
@@ -62,7 +62,7 @@ def getData(key, value):
     for v in values:
         try:
             jsondata = getData(group[:-1], v)
-        except requests.exceptions.ConnectionError as e:
+        except requests.exceptions.ConnectionError:
             errOut("Unable to connect to %s" % NAGIOS_HOST)
         for service in jsondata:
             dns_name = service['host_name'].split('.')
diff --git a/Web/putio.5m.py b/Web/putio.5m.py
index a595be35f..7857b176f 100755
--- a/Web/putio.5m.py
+++ b/Web/putio.5m.py
@@ -77,10 +77,10 @@ def getdir(pid):
     transfers = json.loads(str(r.content,encoding='utf-8'))['transfers']
     r = requests.get(BURL+'/account/info?oauth_token='+OAUTH_TOKEN)
     info = json.loads(str(r.content,encoding='utf-8'))['info']
-except requests.exceptions.ConnectionError as msg:
+except requests.exceptions.ConnectionError:
     print('Error connecting to put.io | color=red')
     sys.exit()
-except json.decoder.JSONDecodeError as msg:
+except json.decoder.JSONDecodeError:
     print('JSON Error: see /tmp/putio.log | color=red')
     with open('/tmp/putio.log', 'w') as fh:
         fh.write(str(r.content,encoding='utf-8'))