diff --git a/src/etc/check-binaries.py b/src/etc/check-binaries.py
index ebd2a9376b6b0..91c01b178075d 100755
--- a/src/etc/check-binaries.py
+++ b/src/etc/check-binaries.py
@@ -1,4 +1,6 @@
-# Copyright 2013 The Rust Project Developers. See the COPYRIGHT
+#!/usr/bin/env python
+#
+# Copyright 2013-2014 The Rust Project Developers. See the COPYRIGHT
 # file at the top-level directory of this distribution and at
 # http://rust-lang.org/COPYRIGHT.
 #
diff --git a/src/etc/check-summary.py b/src/etc/check-summary.py
index c86e926003ff6..55428a6fcc4b6 100755
--- a/src/etc/check-summary.py
+++ b/src/etc/check-summary.py
@@ -1,3 +1,5 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python
+#
 # Copyright 2012-2014 The Rust Project Developers. See the COPYRIGHT
 # file at the top-level directory of this distribution and at
 # http://rust-lang.org/COPYRIGHT.
diff --git a/src/etc/extract_grammar.py b/src/etc/extract_grammar.py
index 4e0fbe944988c..53781652902f5 100755
--- a/src/etc/extract_grammar.py
+++ b/src/etc/extract_grammar.py
@@ -1,3 +1,5 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python
+#
 # Copyright 2012-2013 The Rust Project Developers. See the COPYRIGHT
 # file at the top-level directory of this distribution and at
 # http://rust-lang.org/COPYRIGHT.
diff --git a/src/etc/get-snapshot.py b/src/etc/get-snapshot.py
index faa21ca74df09..ec87c321f56f9 100755
--- a/src/etc/get-snapshot.py
+++ b/src/etc/get-snapshot.py
@@ -1,4 +1,6 @@
-# Copyright 2011-2013 The Rust Project Developers. See the COPYRIGHT
+#!/usr/bin/env python
+#
+# Copyright 2011-2014 The Rust Project Developers. See the COPYRIGHT
 # file at the top-level directory of this distribution and at
 # http://rust-lang.org/COPYRIGHT.
 #
diff --git a/src/etc/make-snapshot.py b/src/etc/make-snapshot.py
index fec78fc1aafdf..31a69a581e4e2 100755
--- a/src/etc/make-snapshot.py
+++ b/src/etc/make-snapshot.py
@@ -1,4 +1,6 @@
-# Copyright 2011-2013 The Rust Project Developers. See the COPYRIGHT
+#!/usr/bin/env python
+#
+# Copyright 2011-2014 The Rust Project Developers. See the COPYRIGHT
 # file at the top-level directory of this distribution and at
 # http://rust-lang.org/COPYRIGHT.
 #