diff --git a/pkgs/development/interpreters/python/2.7/setup-hook.sh b/pkgs/development/interpreters/python/2.7/setup-hook.sh
index 290525c35713..a393b70afe10 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/interpreters/python/2.7/setup-hook.sh
+++ b/pkgs/development/interpreters/python/2.7/setup-hook.sh
@@ -1,12 +1,12 @@
 addPythonPath() {
-    addToSearchPathWithCustomDelimiter : PYTHONPATH $1/lib/python2.6/site-packages
+    addToSearchPathWithCustomDelimiter : PYTHONPATH $1/lib/python2.7/site-packages
 }
 
 toPythonPath() {
     local paths="$1"
     local result=
     for i in $paths; do
-        p="$i/lib/python2.6/site-packages"
+        p="$i/lib/python2.7/site-packages"
         result="${result}${result:+:}$p"
     done
     echo $result