diff --git a/poky/scripts/oe-buildenv-internal b/poky/scripts/oe-buildenv-internal
index 6773872..52ce329 100755
--- a/poky/scripts/oe-buildenv-internal
+++ b/poky/scripts/oe-buildenv-internal
@@ -40,16 +40,7 @@
     return 1
 fi
 
-# Make sure we're not using python v3.x as 'python', we don't support it.
-py_v2_check=$(/usr/bin/env python --version 2>&1 | grep "Python 3")
-if [ -n "$py_v2_check" ]; then
-    echo >&2 "OpenEmbedded requires 'python' to be python v2 (>= 2.7.3), not python v3."
-    echo >&2 "Please set up python v2 as your default 'python' interpreter."
-    return 1
-fi
-unset py_v2_check
-
-py_v27_check=$(python -c 'import sys; print sys.version_info >= (2,7,3)')
+py_v27_check=$(python2 -c 'import sys; print sys.version_info >= (2,7,3)')
 if [ "$py_v27_check" != "True" ]; then
     echo >&2 "OpenEmbedded requires 'python' to be python v2 (>= 2.7.3), not python v3."
     echo >&2 "Please upgrade your python v2."