diff --git a/coccinelle.changes b/coccinelle.changes
index 7da69ff..18ea7d4 100644
--- a/coccinelle.changes
+++ b/coccinelle.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Tue Jan  7 07:45:29 UTC 2020 - nick wang <nwang@suse.com>
+
+- bsc#1160194, change the python library to site-packages hierarchy. 
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Thu Oct 24 13:10:02 UTC 2019 - olaf@aepfle.de
 
diff --git a/coccinelle.spec b/coccinelle.spec
index 24fcb4f..fad6219 100644
--- a/coccinelle.spec
+++ b/coccinelle.spec
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 #
 # spec file for package coccinelle
 #
-# Copyright (c) 2019 SUSE LLC
+# Copyright (c) 2020 SUSE LLC
 #
 # All modifications and additions to the file contributed by third parties
 # remain the property of their copyright owners, unless otherwise agreed
@@ -80,10 +80,16 @@ rm -Rf "%buildroot/%_libdir/%name"/{commons,globals,ocaml,parsing_c} \
 	"%buildroot/%_mandir/man3"/Coccilib*
 %fdupes %buildroot/%_prefix
 
+# Python library have been named after directories in the site-packages hierarchy
+mkdir -p %{buildroot}%{python_sitelib}
+mv %{buildroot}%{_libdir}/%{name}/python/coccilib %{buildroot}%{python_sitelib}
+%fdupes %{buildroot}%{python_sitelib}/coccilib
+
 %files
 %doc authors.txt bugs.txt changes.txt copyright.txt credits.txt
 %license license.txt
 %doc readme.txt
+%{python_sitelib}/coccilib
 %_mandir/man?/*
 %_bindir/sp*
 %_libdir/%name