diff --git a/scripts/gst-uninstalled b/scripts/gst-uninstalled
index 4318b3aa6d..b943cfee2d 100755
--- a/scripts/gst-uninstalled
+++ b/scripts/gst-uninstalled
@@ -187,7 +187,7 @@ export GST_PLUGIN_SCANNER=$GST/gstreamer/libs/gst/helpers/gst-plugin-scanner
 # this still doesn't make it work for the uninstalled case, since man goes
 # look for a man directory "nearby" instead of the directory I'm telling it to
 export MANPATH=$GST/gstreamer/tools:$GST_PREFIX/share/man:$MANPATH
-pythonver=`python -c "import sys; print sys.version[:3]"`
+pythonver=`python -c "import sys; print (sys.version[:3])"`
 export PYTHONPATH=$GST/gst-python:$GST_PREFIX/lib/python$pythonver/site-packages${PYTHONPATH:+:$PYTHONPATH}
 
 # clutter-gst