diff --git a/utils/build-script-impl b/utils/build-script-impl
index 530a70258e504..723b40ad242f5 100755
--- a/utils/build-script-impl
+++ b/utils/build-script-impl
@@ -340,7 +340,7 @@ function with_pushd() {
 }
 
 function quoted_print() {
-    python -c 'import pipes; import sys; print(" ".join(pipes.quote(arg) for arg in sys.argv[1:]))' "$@"
+    python3 -c 'import pipes; import sys; print(" ".join(pipes.quote(arg) for arg in sys.argv[1:]))' "$@"
 }
 
 function toupper() {