diff --git a/doc/Changelog b/doc/Changelog
index b2465fead..b5208d7ff 100644
--- a/doc/Changelog
+++ b/doc/Changelog
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 12 January 2015: Wouter
 	- Cast sun_len sizeof to socklen_t.
+	- Fix pyunbound ord call, portable for python 2 and 3.
 
 7 January 2015: Wouter
 	- Fix warnings in pythonmod changes.
diff --git a/libunbound/python/libunbound.i b/libunbound/python/libunbound.i
index 313c74862..633cc0018 100644
--- a/libunbound/python/libunbound.i
+++ b/libunbound/python/libunbound.i
@@ -44,6 +44,10 @@
 
 %pythoncode %{
    import encodings.idna
+   try:
+       import builtins
+   except ImportError:
+       import __builtin__ as builtins
 
    # Ensure compatibility with older python versions
    if 'bytes' not in vars():
@@ -52,7 +56,7 @@
    def ord(s):
        if isinstance(s, int):
            return s
-       return __builtins__.ord(s)
+       return builtins.ord(s)
 %}
 
 //%include "doc.i"