diff --git a/qa/rpc-tests/rpcbind_test.py b/qa/rpc-tests/rpcbind_test.py
index e192004d6..302ab2a3c 100755
--- a/qa/rpc-tests/rpcbind_test.py
+++ b/qa/rpc-tests/rpcbind_test.py
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-#!/usr/bin/env python
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
 # Copyright (c) 2014 The Bitcoin Core developers
 # Distributed under the MIT software license, see the accompanying
 # file COPYING or https://www.opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.php .
@@ -7,8 +7,6 @@
 
 # Dependency: python-bitcoinrpc
 
-import sys; assert sys.version_info < (3,), ur"This script does not run under Python 3. Please use Python 2.7.x."
-
 from test_framework.util import assert_equal, check_json_precision, \
     initialize_chain, start_nodes, stop_nodes, wait_bitcoinds, \
     bitcoind_processes, rpc_port
diff --git a/qa/zcash/create_wallet_200k_utxos.py b/qa/zcash/create_wallet_200k_utxos.py
index 5ed9db577..08c766e12 100755
--- a/qa/zcash/create_wallet_200k_utxos.py
+++ b/qa/zcash/create_wallet_200k_utxos.py
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-#!/usr/bin/env python
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
 # Copyright (c) 2017 The Zcash developers
 # Distributed under the MIT software license, see the accompanying
 # file COPYING or https://www.opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.php .
@@ -13,8 +13,6 @@
 # - Archive the resulting /tmp/test###### directory
 #
 
-import sys; assert sys.version_info < (3,), r"This script does not run under Python 3. Please use Python 2.7.x."
-
 from test_framework.test_framework import BitcoinTestFramework
 from test_framework.util import (
     assert_equal,
@@ -29,7 +27,7 @@ from decimal import Decimal
 class LargeWalletTest(BitcoinTestFramework):
 
     def setup_chain(self):
-        print(("Initializing test directory "+self.options.tmpdir))
+        print("Initializing test directory "+self.options.tmpdir)
         initialize_chain_clean(self.options.tmpdir, 2)
 
     def setup_network(self):
@@ -52,10 +50,10 @@ class LargeWalletTest(BitcoinTestFramework):
 
         self.nodes[1].generate(1)
         self.sync_all()
-        print(('Node 0: %d transactions, %d UTXOs' %
-              (len(self.nodes[0].listtransactions()), len(self.nodes[0].listunspent()))))
-        print(('Node 1: %d transactions, %d UTXOs' %
-              (len(self.nodes[1].listtransactions()), len(self.nodes[1].listunspent()))))
+        print('Node 0: %d transactions, %d UTXOs' %
+              (len(self.nodes[0].listtransactions()), len(self.nodes[0].listunspent())))
+        print('Node 1: %d transactions, %d UTXOs' %
+              (len(self.nodes[1].listtransactions()), len(self.nodes[1].listunspent())))
         assert_equal(len(self.nodes[0].listunspent()), len(inputs))
 
 if __name__ == '__main__':