diff --git a/Lib/tokenize.py b/Lib/tokenize.py
index 0f68b4034bae..ff57b1270228 100644
--- a/Lib/tokenize.py
+++ b/Lib/tokenize.py
@@ -146,7 +146,9 @@ class TokenError(Exception): pass
 
 class StopTokenizing(Exception): pass
 
-def printtoken(type, token, (srow, scol), (erow, ecol), line): # for testing
+def printtoken(type, token, srow_scol, erow_ecol, line): # for testing
+    srow, scol = srow_scol
+    erow, ecol = erow_ecol
     print "%d,%d-%d,%d:\t%s\t%s" % \
         (srow, scol, erow, ecol, tok_name[type], repr(token))