diff --git a/pkgs/applications/version-management/mercurial/default.nix b/pkgs/applications/version-management/mercurial/default.nix
index 13385209019..290d27b3736 100644
--- a/pkgs/applications/version-management/mercurial/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/applications/version-management/mercurial/default.nix
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-{ stdenv, fetchurl, pythonPackages, makeWrapper, docutils, unzip
+{ stdenv, fetchurl, python2Packages, makeWrapper, docutils, unzip
 , guiSupport ? false, tk ? null
 , ApplicationServices, cf-private }:
 
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ let
   # if you bump version, update pkgs.tortoisehg too or ping maintainer
   version = "3.9.1";
   name = "mercurial-${version}";
-  inherit (pythonPackages) curses docutils hg-git dulwich python;
+  inherit (python2Packages) curses docutils hg-git dulwich python;
 in
 
 stdenv.mkDerivation {
diff --git a/pkgs/development/interpreters/spidermonkey/17.0.nix b/pkgs/development/interpreters/spidermonkey/17.0.nix
index d9cc7775d09..a2ecfb2ef97 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/interpreters/spidermonkey/17.0.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/interpreters/spidermonkey/17.0.nix
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-{ stdenv, fetchurl, pkgconfig, nspr, perl, python, zip, libffi, readline }:
+{ stdenv, fetchurl, pkgconfig, nspr, perl, python2, zip, libffi, readline }:
 
 stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
   version = "17.0.0";
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
 
   propagatedBuildInputs = [ nspr ];
 
-  buildInputs = [ pkgconfig perl python zip libffi readline ];
+  buildInputs = [ pkgconfig perl python2 zip libffi readline ];
 
   postUnpack = "sourceRoot=\${sourceRoot}/js/src";
 
diff --git a/pkgs/tools/typesetting/asciidoc/default.nix b/pkgs/tools/typesetting/asciidoc/default.nix
index 59059c632b9..89ed36231a2 100644
--- a/pkgs/tools/typesetting/asciidoc/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/tools/typesetting/asciidoc/default.nix
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-{ fetchurl, stdenv, python
+{ fetchurl, stdenv, python2
 
 , enableStandardFeatures ? false
 , sourceHighlight ? null
@@ -148,7 +148,7 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
     sha256 = "1w71nk527lq504njmaf0vzr93pgahkgzzxzglrq6bay8cw2rvnvq";
   };
 
-  buildInputs = [ python unzip ];
+  buildInputs = [ python2 unzip ];
 
   # install filters early, so their shebangs are patched too
   patchPhase = with stdenv.lib; ''
@@ -247,7 +247,7 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
         -i a2x.py
   '' + ''
     for n in $(find "$out" . -name \*.py); do
-      sed -i -e "s,^#![[:space:]]*.*/bin/env python,#!${python}/bin/python,g" "$n"
+      sed -i -e "s,^#![[:space:]]*.*/bin/env python,#!${python2}/bin/python,g" "$n"
       chmod +x "$n"
     done
 
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
index 434b0674c9a..82d00ead086 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
@@ -931,18 +931,18 @@ in
   appdata-tools = callPackage ../tools/misc/appdata-tools { };
 
   asciidoc = callPackage ../tools/typesetting/asciidoc {
-    inherit (pythonPackages) matplotlib numpy aafigure recursivePthLoader;
+    inherit (python2Packages) matplotlib numpy aafigure recursivePthLoader;
     w3m = w3m-batch;
     enableStandardFeatures = false;
   };
 
   asciidoc-full = appendToName "full" (asciidoc.override {
-    inherit (pythonPackages) pygments;
+    inherit (python2Packages) pygments;
     enableStandardFeatures = true;
   });
 
   asciidoc-full-with-plugins = appendToName "full-with-plugins" (asciidoc.override {
-    inherit (pythonPackages) pygments;
+    inherit (python2Packages) pygments;
     enableStandardFeatures = true;
     enableExtraPlugins = true;
   });