diff --git a/mwparserfromhell/nodes/html_entity.py b/mwparserfromhell/nodes/html_entity.py
index 7371f2e..b08d2ee 100644
--- a/mwparserfromhell/nodes/html_entity.py
+++ b/mwparserfromhell/nodes/html_entity.py
@@ -101,19 +101,20 @@ class HTMLEntity(Node):
                 intval = int(newval, 16)
             except ValueError:
                 if newval not in htmlentities.entitydefs:
-                    raise ValueError(f"entity value {newval!r} is not a valid name") from None
+                    raise ValueError(
+                        "entity value {!r} is not a valid name".format(newval)) from None
                 self._named = True
                 self._hexadecimal = False
             else:
                 if intval < 0 or intval > 0x10FFFF:
                     raise ValueError(
-                        f"entity value 0x{intval:x} is not in range(0x110000)") from None
+                        "entity value 0x{:x} is not in range(0x110000)".format(intval)) from None
                 self._named = False
                 self._hexadecimal = True
         else:
             test = int(newval, 16 if self.hexadecimal else 10)
             if test < 0 or test > 0x10FFFF:
-                raise ValueError(f"entity value {test} is not in range(0x110000)")
+                raise ValueError("entity value {} is not in range(0x110000)".format(test))
             self._named = False
         self._value = newval
 
@@ -121,13 +122,13 @@ class HTMLEntity(Node):
     def named(self, newval):
         newval = bool(newval)
         if newval and self.value not in htmlentities.entitydefs:
-            raise ValueError(f"entity value {self.value!r} is not a valid name")
+            raise ValueError("entity value {!r} is not a valid name".format(self.value))
         if not newval:
             try:
                 int(self.value, 16)
             except ValueError as exc:
-                raise ValueError(f"current entity value {self.value!r} "
-                                 f"is not a valid Unicode codepoint") from exc
+                raise ValueError("current entity value {!r} is not a valid "
+                                 "Unicode codepoint".format(self.value)) from exc
         self._named = newval
 
     @hexadecimal.setter
diff --git a/mwparserfromhell/utils.py b/mwparserfromhell/utils.py
index 8fa3a96..2c6df08 100644
--- a/mwparserfromhell/utils.py
+++ b/mwparserfromhell/utils.py
@@ -65,6 +65,6 @@ def parse_anything(value, context=0, skip_style_tags=False):
             nodelist += parse_anything(item, context, skip_style_tags).nodes
         return Wikicode(nodelist)
     except TypeError as exc:
-        raise ValueError(f"Needs string, Node, Wikicode, file, int, None, or "
-                         f"iterable of these, but got {type(value).__name__}: "
-                         f"{value}") from exc
+        error = ("Needs string, Node, Wikicode, file, int, None, or "
+                 "iterable of these, but got {0}: {1}")
+        raise ValueError(error.format(type(value).__name__, value)) from exc