1 files changed, 3 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/wscript b/wscript
index e05252d4..fc9a5bbe 100644
--- a/wscript
+++ b/wscript
@@ -34,14 +34,15 @@
 import subprocess
 import os
 import sys
+assert sys.version_info.major == 3
 import shlex
 import distutils.spawn
 from waflib import Logs, Context
 
 APPNAME = 'libdcp'
 
-this_version = subprocess.Popen(shlex.split('git tag -l --points-at HEAD'), stdout=subprocess.PIPE).communicate()[0].encode('UTF-8')
-last_version = subprocess.Popen(shlex.split('git describe --tags --abbrev=0'), stdout=subprocess.PIPE).communicate()[0].encode('UTF-8')
+this_version = subprocess.Popen(shlex.split('git tag -l --points-at HEAD'), stdout=subprocess.PIPE).communicate()[0].decode('UTF-8')
+last_version = subprocess.Popen(shlex.split('git describe --tags --abbrev=0'), stdout=subprocess.PIPE).communicate()[0].decode('UTF-8')
 
 if this_version == '':
     VERSION = '%sdevel' % last_version[1:].strip()