diff --git a/gio/gdbus-codegen/gdbus-codegen.in b/gio/gdbus-codegen/gdbus-codegen.in
index 0fbacb37c..94c086382 100755
--- a/gio/gdbus-codegen/gdbus-codegen.in
+++ b/gio/gdbus-codegen/gdbus-codegen.in
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-#!/usr/bin/python
+#!@PYTHON@
 
 # GDBus - GLib D-Bus Library
 #