diff --git a/createdb.py b/createdb.py
index cc3cbc7..8ca5fb1 100644
--- a/createdb.py
+++ b/createdb.py
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-#!/usr/bin/python
+#!/usr/bin/env python2
 
 ## These two lines are needed to run on EL6
 __requires__ = ['SQLAlchemy >= 0.8', 'jinja2 >= 2.4']
diff --git a/runserver.py b/runserver.py
index ea7c038..ca41080 100755
--- a/runserver.py
+++ b/runserver.py
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-#!/usr/bin/env python
+#!/usr/bin/env python2
 
 ## These two lines are needed to run on EL6
 __requires__ = ['SQLAlchemy >= 0.8', 'jinja2 >= 2.4']