diff --git a/CMakeLists.txt b/CMakeLists.txt
index c29e4fa48d878a4d2da264d43c6ba0f8715cea04..dc6eadd19325181ef7feca2ac16f0f60dec06d6d 100644
--- a/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -208,7 +208,7 @@ include(cmake/rcc.cmake)
 # Simple command calling the python script
   add_custom_command(
     OUTPUT retrievePoFilesFromSvn
-    COMMAND python2 tools/l10n-fetch-po-files.py
+    COMMAND python tools/l10n-fetch-po-files.py
     WORKING_DIRECTORY ${CMAKE_SOURCE_DIR}
     )
 # Install translations
@@ -217,7 +217,7 @@ add_custom_target(getSvnTranslations
   COMMENT "Re-run cmake after this to be able to run BuildTranslations with the latest files"
   )
 
-# Get all po files in po/. You can get them doing: python2 tools/l10n-fetch-po-files.py
+# Get all po files in po/. You can get them doing: python tools/l10n-fetch-po-files.py
 file(GLOB TRANSLATIONS_FILES RELATIVE ${CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR} "po/*.po")
 # Set the output dir for the translation files to /bin
 foreach(PoSource ${TRANSLATIONS_FILES})
diff --git a/tools/convertPoToTsFiles/mergePo.py b/tools/convertPoToTsFiles/mergePo.py
index 12f7d000d9658fc78f9cc82dea6ddca3edc53574..6c5d5fffd718326ed8e930af0306bae076287390 100755
--- a/tools/convertPoToTsFiles/mergePo.py
+++ b/tools/convertPoToTsFiles/mergePo.py
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-#!/usr/bin/python2
+#!/usr/bin/python
 #
 # GCompris - mergePo.py
 #
@@ -19,12 +19,12 @@
 
 # Using polib.py from https://bitbucket.org/izi/polib/wiki/Home
 
-# Usage : python2 mergePo.py qt.po gtk.po
+# Usage : python mergePo.py qt.po gtk.po
 # Find in the first argument po file the translated lines of the gtk po file
 # (if existing) and replace the translation for the po file.
 # For those not found, no translation is provided.
 
-# something like: python2 mergePo.py gcompris_fi.po fi.po && sed '/^#|/ d' < gcompris_fi.po > qtgl.po && mv qtgl.po gcompris_fi.po
+# something like: python mergePo.py gcompris_fi.po fi.po && sed '/^#|/ d' < gcompris_fi.po > qtgl.po && mv qtgl.po gcompris_fi.po
 
 import sys
 import polib
diff --git a/tools/l10n-fetch-po-files.py b/tools/l10n-fetch-po-files.py
index bc7f06cfa4c8b7dd03da184db99783973831add5..7429aa784dd7f68b8dbd77af51a030894d59f3c2 100644
--- a/tools/l10n-fetch-po-files.py
+++ b/tools/l10n-fetch-po-files.py
@@ -43,13 +43,13 @@ if not os.path.exists(OUTPUT_PO_PATH):
 all_languages = subprocess.check_output(['svn', 'cat', SVN_PATH + 'subdirs'],
                                        stderr=subprocess.STDOUT)
 
-all_languages = [x.strip() for x in all_languages.split("\n") if len(x)]
+all_languages = [x.strip() for x in all_languages.decode().split("\n") if len(x)]
 all_languages.remove("x-test")
 for lang in all_languages:
     try:
         raw_data = subprocess.check_output(['svn', 'cat', SVN_PATH + lang + SOURCE_PO_PATH],
                                           stderr=subprocess.PIPE)
-        (transformed, subs) = fixer.subn('# ~| ', raw_data)
+        (transformed, subs) = fixer.subn('# ~| ', raw_data.decode())
         pos1 = re_empty_msgid.search(transformed).start()
         pos2 = re_empty_line.search(transformed).start()
         if re_has_qt_contexts.search(transformed, pos1, pos2) is None:
@@ -58,12 +58,13 @@ for lang in all_languages:
                     transformed[pos2:]
             subs = subs + 1
         if (subs > 0):
-            print "Fetched %s (and performed %d cleanups)" % (lang, subs)
+            print("Fetched %s (and performed %d cleanups)" % (lang, subs))
         else:
-            print "Fetched %s" % lang
-        file(OUTPUT_PO_PATH + OUTPUT_PO_PATTERN % lang, "wb").write(transformed)
+            print("Fetched %s" % lang)
+        out_file = open(OUTPUT_PO_PATH + OUTPUT_PO_PATTERN % lang, "wb")
+        out_file.write(transformed.encode())
     except subprocess.CalledProcessError:
-        print "No data for %s" % lang
+        print ("No data for %s" % lang)
 
 # Inform qmake about the updated file list
 #os.utime("CMakeLists.txt", None)