diff --git a/bucky/collectd.py b/bucky/collectd.py
index <HASH>..<HASH> 100644
--- a/bucky/collectd.py
+++ b/bucky/collectd.py
@@ -134,7 +134,7 @@ class CollectDTypes(object):
         name, spec = line.split(None, 1)
         self.types[name] = []
         self.type_ranges[name] = {}
-        vals = spec.translate(None, ",").split(" ")
+        vals = spec.replace(", ", " ").split(" ")
         for val in vals:
             vname, vtype, minv, maxv = val.strip().split(":")
             vtype = types.get(vtype)
compatibility with pypy3