diff --git a/requests/compat.py b/requests/compat.py
index 5c09ea88..f417cfd8 100644
--- a/requests/compat.py
+++ b/requests/compat.py
@@ -27,9 +27,7 @@ is_py3 = (_ver[0] == 3)
 
 try:
     import simplejson as json
-except (ImportError, SyntaxError):
-    # simplejson does not support Python 3.2, it throws a SyntaxError
-    # because of u'...' Unicode literals.
+except ImportError:
     import json
 
 # ---------