diff --git a/waf b/waf
index 38b2c9106..955b28f77 100755
--- a/waf
+++ b/waf
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-#!/usr/bin/env python
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
 # encoding: latin-1
 # Thomas Nagy, 2005-2018
 #