diff --git a/yocto-poky/meta/recipes-devtools/python/python.inc b/yocto-poky/meta/recipes-devtools/python/python.inc
index 4d428f3..f4818c6 100644
--- a/yocto-poky/meta/recipes-devtools/python/python.inc
+++ b/yocto-poky/meta/recipes-devtools/python/python.inc
@@ -5,19 +5,21 @@
 # bump this on every change in contrib/python/generate-manifest-2.7.py
 INC_PR = "r1"
 
-LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://LICENSE;md5=dff3d00f049545862992d2d097831a13"
+LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://LICENSE;md5=dd98d01d471fac8d8dbdd975229dba03"
 
 SRC_URI = "http://www.python.org/ftp/python/${PV}/Python-${PV}.tar.xz"
 
-SRC_URI[md5sum] = "38d530f7efc373d64a8fb1637e3baaa7"
-SRC_URI[sha256sum] = "90d27e14ea7e03570026850e2e50ba71ad20b7eb31035aada1cf3def8f8d4916"
+SRC_URI[md5sum] = "1dbcc848b4cd8399a8199d000f9f823c"
+SRC_URI[sha256sum] = "962b4c45af50124ea61f11a30deb4342fc0bc21126790fa1d7f6c79809413f46"
+
+# python recipe is actually python 2.x
+# also, exclude pre-releases for both python 2.x and 3.x
+UPSTREAM_CHECK_REGEX = "[Pp]ython-(?P<pver>2(\.\d+)+).tar"
 
 PYTHON_MAJMIN = "2.7"
 
 inherit autotools
 
-PYTHONLSBOPTS_linuxstdbase = "ac_cv_sizeof_off_t=8"
-
 EXTRA_OECONF = "\
   --with-threads \
   --with-pymalloc \