diff --git a/docs/apibuild.py b/docs/apibuild.py
index 87e81f5c3873a7032e99a07ff005780f0b2669d5..a788086a654de942fa9fc547d96e5c825e399159 100755
--- a/docs/apibuild.py
+++ b/docs/apibuild.py
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-#!/usr/bin/python -u
+#!/usr/bin/env python2
 #
 # This is the API builder, it parses the C sources and build the
 # API formal description in XML.
diff --git a/docs/index.py b/docs/index.py
index 2f0ad2672ca273cccb36d01554d624cbd4b8ed56..bedec8ae0c8486e1f2fd254f71592b8115714b85 100755
--- a/docs/index.py
+++ b/docs/index.py
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-#!/usr/bin/python -u
+#!/usr/bin/env python2
 #
 # imports the API description and fills up a database with
 # name relevance to modules, functions or web pages
diff --git a/docs/reformat-news.py b/docs/reformat-news.py
index 39499d9330a1f60f518fa19be7e11d0e5154525c..89f7ccb3dc6d8a1d243167bee7ae5976cd817882 100755
--- a/docs/reformat-news.py
+++ b/docs/reformat-news.py
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-#!/usr/bin/env python
+#!/usr/bin/env python2
 
 # reformat-news.py: Reformat the NEWS file properly
 #
diff --git a/src/esx/esx_vi_generator.py b/src/esx/esx_vi_generator.py
index bc026bd710fdf764a5e7905cdb366d5ee61a42a7..a2b8bef721a8defcb1c30afd0920b351b7d2943c 100755
--- a/src/esx/esx_vi_generator.py
+++ b/src/esx/esx_vi_generator.py
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-#!/usr/bin/env python
+#!/usr/bin/env python2
 
 #
 # esx_vi_generator.py: generates most of the SOAP type mapping code
diff --git a/src/hyperv/hyperv_wmi_generator.py b/src/hyperv/hyperv_wmi_generator.py
index 9c0accea05bdea88cb7aa86b15ff5c0227b39016..b60335e26b51dfd3eb382fb312fdbcc4104826c3 100755
--- a/src/hyperv/hyperv_wmi_generator.py
+++ b/src/hyperv/hyperv_wmi_generator.py
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-#!/usr/bin/env python
+#!/usr/bin/env python2
 
 #
 # hyperv_wmi_generator.py: generates most of the WMI type mapping code
diff --git a/tests/cputestdata/cpu-cpuid.py b/tests/cputestdata/cpu-cpuid.py
index 385d6d1a19d8456d102874b3898e61904252cda5..a2fd938c24c234b0279d07c2b83dce5d699c145f 100755
--- a/tests/cputestdata/cpu-cpuid.py
+++ b/tests/cputestdata/cpu-cpuid.py
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-#!/usr/bin/python2
+#!/usr/bin/env python2
 
 import sys
 import json