diff --git a/bootstrap.py b/bootstrap.py
index 2278ca9b6..84b92ff10 100644
--- a/bootstrap.py
+++ b/bootstrap.py
@@ -105,7 +105,7 @@ def make_cmd(prefix, pth, pyjsversion, pyjspth, cmdname, txt):
     if os.path.exists(cmd):
         if     sys.platform == 'win32' \
            and hasattr(os, "chmod"):
-            os.chmod(cmd, 0755)
+            os.chmod(cmd, 0x1ed)
         os.unlink(cmd)
     f = open(cmd, "w")
     f.write(txt % {'exec': sys.executable, 
@@ -115,7 +115,7 @@ def make_cmd(prefix, pth, pyjsversion, pyjspth, cmdname, txt):
     f.close()
 
     if hasattr(os, "chmod"):
-        os.chmod(cmd, 0555)
+        os.chmod(cmd, 0x16d)
 
     if sys.platform == 'win32':
         cmd = os.path.join("bin", cmdname)
diff --git a/run_bootstrap_first_then_setup.py b/run_bootstrap_first_then_setup.py
index 83d82d8b6..0a595ae23 100644
--- a/run_bootstrap_first_then_setup.py
+++ b/run_bootstrap_first_then_setup.py
@@ -74,14 +74,14 @@ def get_dir(dirname):
 
 if __name__ == '__main__':
 
-    print >> sys.stderr, """
+    sys.stderr.write("""
     Have you run bootstrap.py to create bin/pyjsbuild
     and bin/pyjscompile?
 
     e.g. on Unix systems:
 
         python bootstrap.py /usr/share/pyjamas /usr
-    """
+    """)
 
     setup(name = "Pyjamas",
         version = "0.7",