diff --git a/cocci-pythondetect.diff b/cocci-pythondetect.diff
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..0401919
--- /dev/null
+++ b/cocci-pythondetect.diff
@@ -0,0 +1,17 @@
+---
+ configure |    2 +-
+ 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
+
+Index: coccinelle-0.2.5-rc2/configure
+===================================================================
+--- coccinelle-0.2.5-rc2.orig/configure
++++ coccinelle-0.2.5-rc2/configure
+@@ -198,7 +198,7 @@ We need  3.XX",
+ if($python) {
+     if(check_config(
+ 	"python --version 2>&1 |",
+-	"Python 2\.[567]\..*",
++	qr/Python 2\.[567]\b/,
+ 	"python is present",
+ 	"python is missing or is not a good version."
+        ))
diff --git a/coccinelle.changes b/coccinelle.changes
index 773cbd8..28c5362 100644
--- a/coccinelle.changes
+++ b/coccinelle.changes
@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@ Thu Jan 20 13:41:16 UTC 2011 - jengelh@medozas.de
 * support matching and removing some preprocessor directives
 * support for ocaml scripting
 * print rule name when a script rule crashes
+- Fix python x.y.0 detection
 
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Sat Apr 24 19:14:40 UTC 2010 - jengelh@medozas.de
diff --git a/coccinelle.spec b/coccinelle.spec
index 31c1b44..1668528 100644
--- a/coccinelle.spec
+++ b/coccinelle.spec
@@ -10,6 +10,7 @@ Source:         %name-%rversion.tar.xz
 BuildRoot:      %{_tmppath}/%{name}-%{version}-build
 BuildRequires:  ncurses-devel ocaml python-devel xz
 Patch1:		cocci-cast.diff
+Patch2:		cocci-pythondetect.diff
 
 %description
 Coccinelle is a program matching and transformation engine which
@@ -25,7 +26,7 @@ used (by us and others) for finding and fixing bugs in systems code.
 
 %prep
 %setup -qn %name-%rversion
-%patch -P 1 -p1
+%patch -P 1 -P 2 -p1
 
 %build
 # not autotools configure, don't use macro