diff --git a/run_scapy b/run_scapy
index 0f4611eee461f3b257622cadaba403e4e7a1147f..557f3243612b71431ff7a5d4b0ae4ec3e255f62c 100755
--- a/run_scapy
+++ b/run_scapy
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 #! /bin/sh
 DIR=$(dirname $0)
-if python --version | grep -q '^Python 2'; then
+if python --version 2>&1 | grep -q '^Python 2'; then
     PYTHON=python
 else
     PYTHON=python2
diff --git a/test/run_tests b/test/run_tests
index 3f224ab6b419e377c9de89a21fc28599b97a5950..5f9ea2c14c089a7be8e553956483e3fbefc0f8c2 100755
--- a/test/run_tests
+++ b/test/run_tests
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 #! /bin/bash
 DIR=$(dirname $0)/..
-if python --version | grep -q '^Python 2'; then
+if python --version 2>&1 | grep -q '^Python 2'; then
     PYTHON=python
 else
     PYTHON=python2