diff --git a/Documentation/replace_macros.py b/Documentation/replace_macros.py
index baf08e7d58..2996a98aea 100755
--- a/Documentation/replace_macros.py
+++ b/Documentation/replace_macros.py
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-#!/usr/bin/env python
+#!/usr/bin/env python2
 # coding=utf-8
 # Copyright (C) 2013 The Android Open Source Project
 #
diff --git a/tools/bzl/license.bzl b/tools/bzl/license.bzl
index 38dfbe5e28..357817303a 100644
--- a/tools/bzl/license.bzl
+++ b/tools/bzl/license.bzl
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ def license_map(name, targets = [], opts = [], **kwargs):
   # post process the XML into our favorite format.
   native.genrule(
     name = "gen_license_txt_" + name,
-    cmd = "python $(location //tools/bzl:license-map.py) %s %s > $@" % (" ".join(opts), " ".join(xmls)),
+    cmd = "python2 $(location //tools/bzl:license-map.py) %s %s > $@" % (" ".join(opts), " ".join(xmls)),
     outs = [ name + ".txt" ],
     tools = tools,
     **kwargs
diff --git a/tools/eclipse/project.py b/tools/eclipse/project.py
index 448d940a99..9f8b4b7419 100755
--- a/tools/eclipse/project.py
+++ b/tools/eclipse/project.py
@@ -277,7 +277,7 @@ def gen_factorypath(ext):
     doc.writexml(fd, addindent='\t', newl='\n', encoding='UTF-8')
 
 try:
-  ext_location = retrieve_ext_location()
+  ext_location = retrieve_ext_location().decode("utf-8")
   gen_project(args.project_name)
   gen_classpath(ext_location)
   gen_factorypath(ext_location)
diff --git a/tools/js/bowerutil.py b/tools/js/bowerutil.py
index 8e8e835a46..c2e11cdde2 100644
--- a/tools/js/bowerutil.py
+++ b/tools/js/bowerutil.py
@@ -40,7 +40,7 @@ def hash_bower_component(hash_obj, path):
       if f == '.bower.json':
         continue
       p = os.path.join(root, f)
-      hash_obj.update(p[len(path)+1:])
-      hash_obj.update(open(p).read())
+      hash_obj.update(p[len(path)+1:].encode("utf-8"))
+      hash_obj.update(open(p, "rb").read())
 
   return hash_obj
diff --git a/tools/js/download_bower.py b/tools/js/download_bower.py
index f5b7bf57cc..1c8d45e237 100755
--- a/tools/js/download_bower.py
+++ b/tools/js/download_bower.py
@@ -68,7 +68,7 @@ def ignore_deps(info):
   deps = info.get('dependencies')
   if deps:
     with open(os.path.join('.bowerrc'), 'w') as f:
-      json.dump({'ignoredDependencies': deps.keys()}, f)
+      json.dump({'ignoredDependencies': list(deps.keys())}, f)
 
 
 def cache_entry(name, package, version, sha1):
diff --git a/tools/js/npm_pack.py b/tools/js/npm_pack.py
index 9e8482e17a..de45083f7b 100755
--- a/tools/js/npm_pack.py
+++ b/tools/js/npm_pack.py
@@ -42,7 +42,7 @@ def is_bundled(tar):
 def bundle_dependencies():
   with open('package.json') as f:
     package = json.load(f)
-  package['bundledDependencies'] = package['dependencies'].keys()
+  package['bundledDependencies'] = list(package['dependencies'].keys())
   with open('package.json', 'w') as f:
     json.dump(package, f)