diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index dc719faece1..2407c242da6 100755
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@
     from setuptools import setup
     from setuptools.command.sdist import sdist
     from setuptools.command.build_py import build_py
-except:
+except ImportError:
     raise ImportError("setuptools is required to install scapy !")