diff --git a/runbullet/__init__.py b/runbullet/__init__.py
index 6cf25e7a9a..440bf5ec64 100644
--- a/runbullet/__init__.py
+++ b/runbullet/__init__.py
@@ -78,7 +78,7 @@ def _exec_func(body, retry=True):
 
     target = body.pop('target')
     action = body.pop('action')
-    tokens action.split('.')
+    tokens = action.split('.')
     module_name = str.join('.', tokens[:-1])
     method_name = tokens[-1:][0]