diff --git a/python-gevent.changes b/python-gevent.changes
index e355898..38b6bba 100644
--- a/python-gevent.changes
+++ b/python-gevent.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Thu Apr 11 14:20:20 UTC 2019 - Matej Cepl <mcepl@suse.com>
+
+- Switch off type_https test as it fails with new Python 2.7.16
+- Clean up the SPEC file.
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Mon Feb 18 12:09:52 UTC 2019 - Tomáš Chvátal <tchvatal@suse.com>
 
diff --git a/python-gevent.spec b/python-gevent.spec
index 0b7e667..3cc9610 100644
--- a/python-gevent.spec
+++ b/python-gevent.spec
@@ -93,6 +93,7 @@ Documentation and examples for %{name}.
 %patch0 -p1
 %patch1 -p1
 %patch2 -p1
+sed -i -e '1s!bin/env python!bin/python!' examples/*.py
 
 %build
 export LIBEV_EMBED=0
@@ -110,6 +111,7 @@ export CARES_EMBED=0
 # create ignore list of tests that reach out to the net
 # test_ssl.py is fragile as it expect specific responses from ssl and
 #  does not account to our local changes
+# Also, gh#gevent/gevent#1390
 cat <<'EOF' >> network_tests.txt
 test_urllib2net.py
 test__server.py
@@ -119,6 +121,8 @@ test___example_servers.py
 test__socket_dns.py
 test__getaddrinfo_import.py
 test__examples.py
+test_https.py
+test_urllib2_localnet.py
 test_ssl.py
 test__ssl.py
 EOF