diff --git a/egs/wsj/s5/local/chain/tuning/run_tdnn_1g.sh b/egs/wsj/s5/local/chain/tuning/run_tdnn_1g.sh
index 526059b7b90..8f566ccfe6d 100755
--- a/egs/wsj/s5/local/chain/tuning/run_tdnn_1g.sh
+++ b/egs/wsj/s5/local/chain/tuning/run_tdnn_1g.sh
@@ -160,7 +160,7 @@ if [ $stage -le 15 ]; then
   echo "$0: creating neural net configs using the xconfig parser";
 
   num_targets=$(tree-info $tree_dir/tree |grep num-pdfs|awk '{print $2}')
-  learning_rate_factor=$(echo "print 0.5/$xent_regularize" | python)
+  learning_rate_factor=$(echo "print(0.5/$xent_regularize)" | python)
   tdnn_opts="l2-regularize=0.01 dropout-proportion=0.0 dropout-per-dim-continuous=true"
   tdnnf_opts="l2-regularize=0.01 dropout-proportion=0.0 bypass-scale=0.66"
   linear_opts="l2-regularize=0.01 orthonormal-constraint=-1.0"
diff --git a/egs/wsj/s5/utils/data/perturb_data_dir_volume.sh b/egs/wsj/s5/utils/data/perturb_data_dir_volume.sh
index dae440b03a3..e357ba8cbfb 100755
--- a/egs/wsj/s5/utils/data/perturb_data_dir_volume.sh
+++ b/egs/wsj/s5/utils/data/perturb_data_dir_volume.sh
@@ -52,15 +52,15 @@ for line in sys.stdin.readlines():
   parts = line.strip().split()
   if line.strip()[-1] == '|':
     if re.search('sox --vol', ' '.join(parts[-11:])):
-      print 'true'
+      print('true')
       sys.exit(0)
   elif re.search(':[0-9]+$', line.strip()) is not None:
     continue
   else:
     if ' '.join(parts[1:3]) == 'sox --vol':
-      print 'true'
+      print('true')
       sys.exit(0)
-print 'false'
+print('false')
 "` || exit 1
 
 if $volume_perturb_done; then