diff --git a/playbooks/library/copy_updates b/playbooks/library/copy_updates
index ff4ae5ffa2..9637f7a51b 100644
--- a/playbooks/library/copy_updates
+++ b/playbooks/library/copy_updates
@@ -95,7 +95,7 @@ def get_json_from_file(module, file_path):
             json_obj = json.loads(infile.read(),
                                   object_pairs_hook=collections.OrderedDict)
             return json_obj
-    except Exception, e:
+    except Exception as e:
         module.fail_json(
             msg="Error reading from file %s: %s" % (file_path, str(e)))
 
@@ -104,7 +104,7 @@ def dump_json_to_file(module, file_path, json_obj):
     try:
         with open(file_path, 'w') as outfile:
             json.dump(json_obj, outfile, indent=4)
-    except Exception, e:
+    except Exception as e:
         module.fail_json(
             msg="Error writing to file %s: %s" % (file_path, str(e)))
 
@@ -121,9 +121,9 @@ def str_to_json(module, json_str):
         try:
             return json.loads(json_str,
                               object_pairs_hook=collections.OrderedDict)
-        except:
+        except Exception:
             return ast.literal_eval(json_str)
-    except:
+    except Exception:
         module.fail_json(msg="JSON format expected for: %s " % (json_str))
 
 
diff --git a/playbooks/library/memcached b/playbooks/library/memcached
index 680202e4bd..cf945288df 100644
--- a/playbooks/library/memcached
+++ b/playbooks/library/memcached
@@ -15,15 +15,15 @@
 # See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
 # limitations under the License.
 
-import os
 import base64
+import os
 import stat
 import sys
 
 import memcache
 try:
-    from Crypto import Random
     from Crypto.Cipher import AES
+    from Crypto import Random
 
     ENCRYPT_IMPORT = True
 except ImportError:
@@ -204,7 +204,7 @@ class AESCipher(object):
 
         :param string: ``str``
         """
-        ordinal_range = ord(string[len(string)-1:])
+        ordinal_range = ord(string[len(string) - 1:])
         return string[:-ordinal_range]
 
 
@@ -512,7 +512,7 @@ class Memcached(object):
         split_d_value = {}
         count = 0
         for i in range(0, len(d_value), step):
-            split_d_value['%s.%s' % (key_name, count)] = d_value[i:i+step]
+            split_d_value['%s.%s' % (key_name, count)] = d_value[i:i + step]
             count += 1
 
         value = self.mc.set_multi(
diff --git a/scripts/gate-check-lint.sh b/scripts/gate-check-lint.sh
index d8c18ae9f9..62568e958d 100755
--- a/scripts/gate-check-lint.sh
+++ b/scripts/gate-check-lint.sh
@@ -36,7 +36,7 @@ fi
 # Ignores the following rules due to how ansible modules work in general
 #     F403 'from ansible.module_utils.basic import *' used; unable to detect undefined names
 #     H303  No wildcard (*) import.
-flake8 --ignore=F403,H303 $(grep -rln -e '^#!/usr/bin/env python' -e '^#!/bin/python' * )
+flake8 --ignore=F403,H303 $(grep -rln -e '^#!/usr/bin/env python' -e '^#!/bin/python' -e '^#!/usr/bin/python' * )
 
 
 # Create keys if they don't already exist.