diff --git a/common/wscript b/common/wscript

index afc251a2..70503788 100644

--- a/common/wscript

+++ b/common/wscript

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@

-#! /usr/bin/env python

+#! /usr/bin/python3

 # encoding: utf-8

 import re

diff --git a/compat/alloca/wscript b/compat/alloca/wscript

index 36798973..9e740f1c 100644

--- a/compat/alloca/wscript

+++ b/compat/alloca/wscript

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@

-#!/usr/bin/env python

+#!/usr/bin/python3

 # encoding: utf-8

 #

 # Copyright (C) 2018 Karl Linden <karl.j.linden@gmail.com>

diff --git a/compat/wscript b/compat/wscript

index e3ec8d33..25eb2a3f 100644

--- a/compat/wscript

+++ b/compat/wscript

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@

-#!/usr/bin/env python

+#!/usr/bin/python3

 # encoding: utf-8

 #

 # Copyright (C) 2018 Karl Linden <karl.j.linden@gmail.com>

diff --git a/dbus/wscript b/dbus/wscript

index 535d4121..fa40b4f1 100644

--- a/dbus/wscript

+++ b/dbus/wscript

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@

-#! /usr/bin/env python

+#! /usr/bin/python3

 # encoding: utf-8

 import os.path

diff --git a/example-clients/jack_control b/example-clients/jack_control

index 61ac40c1..54277543 100755

--- a/example-clients/jack_control

+++ b/example-clients/jack_control

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@

-#!/usr/bin/env python

+#!/usr/bin/python3

 from __future__ import print_function

 name_base = 'org.jackaudio'

diff --git a/example-clients/wscript b/example-clients/wscript

index 6163d222..a8857aa7 100644

--- a/example-clients/wscript

+++ b/example-clients/wscript

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@

-#! /usr/bin/env python

+#! /usr/bin/python3

 # encoding: utf-8

 example_programs = {

diff --git a/man/wscript b/man/wscript

index 9e4d3043..def57078 100644

--- a/man/wscript

+++ b/man/wscript

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@

-#! /usr/bin/env python

+#! /usr/bin/python3

 # encoding: utf-8

 import re

diff --git a/systemd/wscript b/systemd/wscript

index fc8b8f15..d10bdf96 100644

--- a/systemd/wscript

+++ b/systemd/wscript

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@

-#! /usr/bin/env python

+#! /usr/bin/python3

 # encoding: utf-8

diff --git a/tests/wscript b/tests/wscript

index 756fd3bb..96a63bc9 100644

--- a/tests/wscript

+++ b/tests/wscript

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@

-#! /usr/bin/env python

+#! /usr/bin/python3

 # encoding: utf-8

 test_programs = {

diff --git a/waf b/waf

index a2efc852..845fba5e 100755

--- a/waf

+++ b/waf

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@

-#!/usr/bin/env python

+#!/usr/bin/python3

 # encoding: latin-1

 # Thomas Nagy, 2005-2018

 #

diff --git a/wscript b/wscript

index 5e8485e6..7e48f750 100644

--- a/wscript

+++ b/wscript

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@

-#! /usr/bin/env python

+#! /usr/bin/python3

 # encoding: utf-8

 from __future__ import print_function