diff --git a/contrib/make_locale b/contrib/make_locale
index 6adfe73a..6f9d1543 100755
--- a/contrib/make_locale
+++ b/contrib/make_locale
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-#!/usr/bin/python
+#!/usr/bin/env python2
 from StringIO import StringIO
 import urllib2, os, zipfile, pycurl