diff --git a/doc/Changelog b/doc/Changelog
index ffb5465ec..95f74125a 100644
--- a/doc/Changelog
+++ b/doc/Changelog
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 10 August 2011: Wouter
 	- Fix python site-packages path to /usr/lib64.
+	- updated patch from Tom.
 
 9 August 2011: Wouter
 	- patch from Tom Hendrikx fixes load of python modules.
diff --git a/pythonmod/pythonmod.c b/pythonmod/pythonmod.c
index a0d1cf768..759f1fff4 100644
--- a/pythonmod/pythonmod.c
+++ b/pythonmod/pythonmod.c
@@ -153,8 +153,8 @@ int pythonmod_init(struct module_env* env, int id)
    }
    PyRun_SimpleString("sys.path.append('"RUN_DIR"') \n");
    PyRun_SimpleString("sys.path.append('"SHARE_DIR"') \n");
-   PyRun_SimpleString("import sysconfig \n");
-   PyRun_SimpleString("sys.path.append(sysconfig.get_path('purelib')) \n");
+   PyRun_SimpleString("import distutils.sysconfig \n");
+   PyRun_SimpleString("sys.path.append(distutils.sysconfig.get_python_lib(1,0)) \n");
    if (PyRun_SimpleString("from unboundmodule import *\n") < 0)
    {
       log_err("pythonmod: cannot initialize core module: unboundmodule.py");