diff --git a/django/contrib/admin/views/main.py b/django/contrib/admin/views/main.py
index c697abfaa7022..050d4776d0621 100644
--- a/django/contrib/admin/views/main.py
+++ b/django/contrib/admin/views/main.py
@@ -174,7 +174,7 @@ def get_filters(self, request):
                                 lookup_needs_distinct(self.lookup_opts, key))
             return filter_specs, bool(filter_specs), lookup_params, use_distinct
         except FieldDoesNotExist as e:
-            raise IncorrectLookupParameters, IncorrectLookupParameters(e), sys.exc_info()[2]
+            six.reraise(IncorrectLookupParameters, IncorrectLookupParameters(e), sys.exc_info()[2])
 
     def get_query_string(self, new_params=None, remove=None):
         if new_params is None: new_params = {}
diff --git a/django/contrib/gis/db/backends/oracle/introspection.py b/django/contrib/gis/db/backends/oracle/introspection.py
index 0e27ece7a5fec..d6c8f452df6e5 100644
--- a/django/contrib/gis/db/backends/oracle/introspection.py
+++ b/django/contrib/gis/db/backends/oracle/introspection.py
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 import cx_Oracle
-from django.db.backends.oracle.introspection import DatabaseIntrospection
 import sys
+from django.db.backends.oracle.introspection import DatabaseIntrospection
+from django.utils import six
 
 class OracleIntrospection(DatabaseIntrospection):
     # Associating any OBJECTVAR instances with GeometryField.  Of course,
@@ -22,7 +23,7 @@ def get_geometry_type(self, table_name, geo_col):
                     'Could not find entry in USER_SDO_GEOM_METADATA '
                     'corresponding to "%s"."%s"\n'
                     'Error message: %s.') % (table_name, geo_col, msg)
-                raise Exception, Exception(new_msg), sys.exc_info()[2]
+                six.reraise(Exception, Exception(new_msg), sys.exc_info()[2])
 
             # TODO: Research way to find a more specific geometry field type for
             # the column's contents.
diff --git a/django/contrib/gis/db/backends/spatialite/base.py b/django/contrib/gis/db/backends/spatialite/base.py
index 4ef810e5d2978..7b49d71a619f1 100644
--- a/django/contrib/gis/db/backends/spatialite/base.py
+++ b/django/contrib/gis/db/backends/spatialite/base.py
@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@
 from django.contrib.gis.db.backends.spatialite.creation import SpatiaLiteCreation
 from django.contrib.gis.db.backends.spatialite.introspection import SpatiaLiteIntrospection
 from django.contrib.gis.db.backends.spatialite.operations import SpatiaLiteOperations
+from django.utils import six
 
 class DatabaseWrapper(SQLiteDatabaseWrapper):
     def __init__(self, *args, **kwargs):
@@ -54,6 +55,6 @@ def get_new_connection(self, conn_params):
             new_msg = (
                 'Unable to load the SpatiaLite library extension '
                 '"%s" because: %s') % (self.spatialite_lib, msg)
-            raise ImproperlyConfigured, ImproperlyConfigured(new_msg), sys.exc_info()[2]
+            six.reraise(ImproperlyConfigured, ImproperlyConfigured(new_msg), sys.exc_info()[2])
         cur.close()
         return conn
diff --git a/django/contrib/gis/db/backends/spatialite/operations.py b/django/contrib/gis/db/backends/spatialite/operations.py
index 2be1c9613d99c..83745476a0fdb 100644
--- a/django/contrib/gis/db/backends/spatialite/operations.py
+++ b/django/contrib/gis/db/backends/spatialite/operations.py
@@ -131,7 +131,7 @@ def spatial_version(self):
                 'Cannot determine the SpatiaLite version for the "%s" '
                 'database (error was "%s").  Was the SpatiaLite initialization '
                 'SQL loaded on this database?') % (self.connection.settings_dict['NAME'], msg)
-            raise ImproperlyConfigured, ImproperlyConfigured(new_msg), sys.exc_info()[2]
+            six.reraise(ImproperlyConfigured, ImproperlyConfigured(new_msg), sys.exc_info()[2])
         if version < (2, 3, 0):
             raise ImproperlyConfigured('GeoDjango only supports SpatiaLite versions '
                                        '2.3.0 and above')
diff --git a/django/contrib/gis/utils/layermapping.py b/django/contrib/gis/utils/layermapping.py
index 44d00643cdb7a..282dbc7450d3b 100644
--- a/django/contrib/gis/utils/layermapping.py
+++ b/django/contrib/gis/utils/layermapping.py
@@ -430,7 +430,7 @@ def coord_transform(self):
             return CoordTransform(self.source_srs, target_srs)
         except Exception as msg:
             new_msg = 'Could not translate between the data source and model geometry: %s' % msg
-            raise LayerMapError, LayerMapError(new_msg), sys.exc_info()[2]
+            six.reraise(LayerMapError, LayerMapError(new_msg), sys.exc_info()[2])
 
     def geometry_field(self):
         "Returns the GeometryField instance associated with the geographic column."
diff --git a/django/core/management/commands/flush.py b/django/core/management/commands/flush.py
index 81b9a22d71a10..10066417a162e 100644
--- a/django/core/management/commands/flush.py
+++ b/django/core/management/commands/flush.py
@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@
 from django.core.management.sql import sql_flush, emit_post_sync_signal
 from django.utils.importlib import import_module
 from django.utils.six.moves import input
+from django.utils import six
 
 
 class Command(NoArgsCommand):
@@ -70,7 +71,7 @@ def handle_noargs(self, **options):
                     "  * The SQL was invalid.\n"
                     "Hint: Look at the output of 'django-admin.py sqlflush'. That's the SQL this command wasn't able to run.\n"
                     "The full error: %s") % (connection.settings_dict['NAME'], e)
-                raise CommandError, CommandError(new_msg), sys.exc_info()[2]
+                six.reraise(CommandError, CommandError(new_msg), sys.exc_info()[2])
             # Emit the post sync signal. This allows individual
             # applications to respond as if the database had been
             # sync'd from scratch.
diff --git a/django/core/serializers/json.py b/django/core/serializers/json.py
index f7c9a100f261b..64357bf9d55ce 100644
--- a/django/core/serializers/json.py
+++ b/django/core/serializers/json.py
@@ -73,7 +73,7 @@ def Deserializer(stream_or_string, **options):
         raise
     except Exception as e:
         # Map to deserializer error
-        raise DeserializationError, DeserializationError(e), sys.exc_info()[2]
+        six.reraise(DeserializationError, DeserializationError(e), sys.exc_info()[2])
 
 
 class DjangoJSONEncoder(json.JSONEncoder):
diff --git a/django/core/serializers/pyyaml.py b/django/core/serializers/pyyaml.py
index 7b1dfcde4e090..478f14b53f31e 100644
--- a/django/core/serializers/pyyaml.py
+++ b/django/core/serializers/pyyaml.py
@@ -72,4 +72,4 @@ def Deserializer(stream_or_string, **options):
         raise
     except Exception as e:
         # Map to deserializer error
-        raise DeserializationError, DeserializationError(e), sys.exc_info()[2]
+        six.reraise(DeserializationError, DeserializationError(e), sys.exc_info()[2])
diff --git a/django/core/servers/basehttp.py b/django/core/servers/basehttp.py
index e826e9c55ee68..8e390bce272b3 100644
--- a/django/core/servers/basehttp.py
+++ b/django/core/servers/basehttp.py
@@ -24,6 +24,7 @@
 from django.core.management.color import color_style
 from django.core.wsgi import get_wsgi_application
 from django.utils.module_loading import import_by_path
+from django.utils import six
 
 __all__ = ['WSGIServer', 'WSGIRequestHandler']
 
@@ -121,7 +122,7 @@ def server_bind(self):
         try:
             super(WSGIServer, self).server_bind()
         except Exception as e:
-            raise WSGIServerException, WSGIServerException(e), sys.exc_info()[2]
+            six.reraise(WSGIServerException, WSGIServerException(e), sys.exc_info()[2])
         self.setup_environ()
 
 
diff --git a/django/forms/fields.py b/django/forms/fields.py
index 729921051dd21..e708ef846e5d4 100644
--- a/django/forms/fields.py
+++ b/django/forms/fields.py
@@ -620,7 +620,7 @@ def to_python(self, data):
             # raised. Catch and re-raise.
             raise
         except Exception: # Python Imaging Library doesn't recognize it as an image
-            raise ValidationError, ValidationError(self.error_messages['invalid_image']), sys.exc_info()[2]
+            six.reraise(ValidationError, ValidationError(self.error_messages['invalid_image']), sys.exc_info()[2])
         if hasattr(f, 'seek') and callable(f.seek):
             f.seek(0)
         return f
diff --git a/django/forms/util.py b/django/forms/util.py
index ca629593504a4..f1b864e6b35ff 100644
--- a/django/forms/util.py
+++ b/django/forms/util.py
@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@
 from django.utils.safestring import mark_safe
 from django.utils import timezone
 from django.utils.translation import ugettext_lazy as _
+from django.utils import six
 import sys
 
 # Import ValidationError so that it can be imported from this
@@ -84,7 +85,7 @@ def from_current_timezone(value):
                 'in time zone %(current_timezone)s; it '
                 'may be ambiguous or it may not exist.') % {'datetime': value, 'current_timezone':
                 current_timezone}
-            raise ValidationError, ValidationError(msg), sys.exc_info()[2]
+            six.reraise(ValidationError, ValidationError(msg), sys.exc_info()[2])
     return value
 
 def to_current_timezone(value):
diff --git a/django/http/multipartparser.py b/django/http/multipartparser.py
index 20b2794fcea7f..0c07335f27d47 100644
--- a/django/http/multipartparser.py
+++ b/django/http/multipartparser.py
@@ -211,7 +211,7 @@ def parse(self):
                                 except Exception as e:
                                     # Since this is only a chunk, any error is an unfixable error.
                                     msg = "Could not decode base64 data: %r" % e
-                                    raise MultiPartParserError, MultiPartParserError(msg), sys.exc_info()[2]
+                                    six.reraise(MultiPartParserError, MultiPartParserError(msg), sys.exc_info()[2])
 
                             for i, handler in enumerate(handlers):
                                 chunk_length = len(chunk)
diff --git a/django/templatetags/i18n.py b/django/templatetags/i18n.py
index 43937b5aa9978..14f0382fc73c1 100644
--- a/django/templatetags/i18n.py
+++ b/django/templatetags/i18n.py
@@ -428,7 +428,7 @@ def do_block_translate(parser, token):
                 msg = (
                     '"context" in %r tag expected '
                     'exactly one argument.') % bits[0]
-                raise TemplateSyntaxError, TemplateSyntaxError(msg), sys.exc_info()[2]
+                six.reraise(TemplateSyntaxError, TemplateSyntaxError(msg), sys.exc_info()[2])
         else:
             raise TemplateSyntaxError('Unknown argument for %r tag: %r.' %
                                       (bits[0], option))
diff --git a/django/test/testcases.py b/django/test/testcases.py
index 5f27259348e70..9c90aa58d7f86 100644
--- a/django/test/testcases.py
+++ b/django/test/testcases.py
@@ -1119,7 +1119,7 @@ def setUpClass(cls):
                     for port in range(extremes[0], extremes[1] + 1):
                         possible_ports.append(port)
         except Exception:
-            raise ImproperlyConfigured, ImproperlyConfigured(msg), sys.exc_info()[2]
+            six.reraise(ImproperlyConfigured, ImproperlyConfigured(msg), sys.exc_info()[2])
         cls.server_thread = LiveServerThread(
             host, possible_ports, connections_override)
         cls.server_thread.daemon = True
diff --git a/django/utils/http.py b/django/utils/http.py
index b18bcce1de01c..73b6396286da3 100644
--- a/django/utils/http.py
+++ b/django/utils/http.py
@@ -144,7 +144,7 @@ def parse_http_date(date):
         result = datetime.datetime(year, month, day, hour, min, sec)
         return calendar.timegm(result.utctimetuple())
     except Exception:
-        raise ValueError, ValueError("%r is not a valid date" % date), sys.exc_info()[2]
+        six.reraise(ValueError, ValueError("%r is not a valid date" % date), sys.exc_info()[2])
 
 def parse_http_date_safe(date):
     """