diff --git a/contrib/py-bindings/Makefile b/contrib/py-bindings/Makefile
index af627bb2e..32396fe97 100644
--- a/contrib/py-bindings/Makefile
+++ b/contrib/py-bindings/Makefile
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 src=../../src
 import=-i$(src)/runtime/haskell:$(src)/compiler
 cbind=../c-bindings
-pythoninc=/usr/include/python2.5
+pythoninc=/usr/include/python2.6
 debug= #-optc '-DDEBUG=1'
 exdir=../../examples/tutorial/embedded
 
@@ -33,4 +33,4 @@ PyGF.hs: PyGF.hsc
 	hsc2hs -I$(pythoninc) $<
 
 Query.pgf:
-	gf --make  $(exdir)/QueryEng.gf $(exdir)/QuerySpa.gf 
\ No newline at end of file
+	gf --make  $(exdir)/QueryEng.gf $(exdir)/QuerySpa.gf 
diff --git a/contrib/py-bindings/test.py b/contrib/py-bindings/test.py
index 8b1bc9443..ebfa0a0c8 100644
--- a/contrib/py-bindings/test.py
+++ b/contrib/py-bindings/test.py
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ samples = [
 
 def lang2iso(l):
 	s = rmprefix(l)
-	assert(s[:5],"Query")
+	assert s[:5]=="Query"
 	return s[5:].lower()
 
 def exp2str(e):
@@ -89,7 +89,6 @@ class TestParsing(unittest.TestCase):
 		self.pgf = "Query.pgf"
 
 	def test_parse(self):
-		s = self.lexed[0]
 		pgf = gf.read_pgf(self.pgf)
 		l = gf.read_language(self.lang)
 		for abs,cnc in self.lexed: