diff --git a/doc/Changelog b/doc/Changelog
index d28189130..56d3bf0b2 100644
--- a/doc/Changelog
+++ b/doc/Changelog
@@ -1,3 +1,6 @@
+9 August 2011: Wouter
+	- patch from Tom Hendrikx fixes load of python modules.
+
 8 August 2011: Wouter
 	- make clean had ldns-src reference, removed.
 
diff --git a/pythonmod/pythonmod.c b/pythonmod/pythonmod.c
index d253cd274..a0d1cf768 100644
--- a/pythonmod/pythonmod.c
+++ b/pythonmod/pythonmod.c
@@ -153,6 +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");
    if (PyRun_SimpleString("from unboundmodule import *\n") < 0)
    {
       log_err("pythonmod: cannot initialize core module: unboundmodule.py");