diff --git a/gi/overrides/Gst.py b/gi/overrides/Gst.py
index 0f5f2be8b0..3afc9c26c6 100644
--- a/gi/overrides/Gst.py
+++ b/gi/overrides/Gst.py
@@ -34,14 +34,6 @@ from ..module import get_introspection_module
 from gi.repository import GLib
 
 
-if sys.version_info >= (3, 0):
-    _basestring = str
-    _callable = lambda c: hasattr(c, '__call__')
-    long = int
-else:
-    _basestring = basestring
-    _callable = callable
-
 Gst = get_introspection_module('Gst')
 
 __all__ = []
@@ -52,7 +44,7 @@ if Gst._version == '0.10':
 was not designed for use with introspection some of the \
 interfaces and API will fail.  As such this is not supported \
 by the GStreamer development team and we encourage you to \
-port your app to Gst 1 or greater. gst-python is the recomended \
+port your app to Gst 1 or greater. gst-python is the recommended \
 python module to use with Gst 0.10"
 
     warnings.warn(warn_msg, RuntimeWarning)
@@ -481,10 +473,10 @@ class Int64Range(Gst.Int64Range):
 
 class Bitmask(Gst.Bitmask):
     def __init__(self, v):
-        if not isinstance(v, long) and not isinstance(v, int):
-            raise TypeError("%s is not an int or long." % (type(v)))
+        if not isinstance(v, int):
+            raise TypeError("%s is not an int." % (type(v)))
 
-        self.v = long(v)
+        self.v = int(v)
 
     def __str__(self):
         return hex(self.v)
diff --git a/gi/overrides/gstmodule.c b/gi/overrides/gstmodule.c
index a28959fd53..4e26fdbebb 100644
--- a/gi/overrides/gstmodule.c
+++ b/gi/overrides/gstmodule.c
@@ -32,7 +32,6 @@
 
 #include <locale.h>
 
-#if PY_MAJOR_VERSION >= 3
 #define PYGLIB_MODULE_START(symbol, modname)	        \
     static struct PyModuleDef _##symbol##module = {     \
     PyModuleDef_HEAD_INIT,                              \
@@ -51,15 +50,6 @@ PyMODINIT_FUNC PyInit_##symbol(void)                    \
     PyObject *module;                                   \
     module = PyModule_Create(&_##symbol##module);
 #define PYGLIB_MODULE_END return module; }
-#else
-#define PYGLIB_MODULE_START(symbol, modname)            \
-DL_EXPORT(void) init##symbol(void);         \
-DL_EXPORT(void) init##symbol(void)          \
-{                                                       \
-    PyObject *module;                                   \
-    module = Py_InitModule(modname, symbol##_functions);
-#define PYGLIB_MODULE_END }
-#endif
 
 GST_DEBUG_CATEGORY_STATIC (python_debug);
 GST_DEBUG_CATEGORY_STATIC (pygst_debug);
@@ -81,7 +71,7 @@ gi_gst_get_type (gchar * type_name)
   dict = PyModule_GetDict (module);
   Py_DECREF (module);
 
-  /* For some reson we need this intermediary step */
+  /* For some reason we need this intermediary step */
   module = PyMapping_GetItemString (dict, "_overrides_module");
   if (module == NULL) {
     PyErr_SetString (PyExc_KeyError,
@@ -654,7 +644,6 @@ pygst_debug_log (PyObject * pyobject, PyObject * string, GstDebugLevel level,
   }
 
   frame = PyEval_GetFrame ();
-#if PY_MAJOR_VERSION >= 3
   {
     PyObject *utf8;
     const gchar *utf8_str;
@@ -671,11 +660,6 @@ pygst_debug_log (PyObject * pyobject, PyObject * string, GstDebugLevel level,
     filename = g_strdup (utf8_str);
     Py_DECREF (utf8);
   }
-#else
-  function = g_strdup (PyString_AsString (frame->f_code->co_name));
-  filename =
-      g_path_get_basename (PyString_AsString (frame->f_code->co_filename));
-#endif
   lineno = PyCode_Addr2Line (frame->f_code, frame->f_lasti);
   /* gst_debug_log : category, level, file, function, line, object, format, va_list */
   if (isgstobject)
diff --git a/meson.build b/meson.build
index 0c0a5ae997..5f13b482ab 100644
--- a/meson.build
+++ b/meson.build
@@ -24,6 +24,9 @@ pygobject_dep = dependency('pygobject-3.0', fallback: ['pygobject', 'pygobject_d
 
 pymod = import('python')
 python = pymod.find_installation(get_option('python'))
+if python.language_version().version_compare('<3.0')
+  error('Python2 is not supported anymore, please port your code to python3 (@0@ specified)'.format(python.language_version()))
+endif
 python_dep = python.dependency(required : true)
 
 python_abi_flags = python.get_variable('ABIFLAGS', '')