--- a/tests/test-hgweb.t	Tue Sep 18 22:40:03 2018 -0400
+++ b/tests/test-hgweb.t	Tue Sep 18 23:47:21 2018 -0400
@@ -329,7 +329,7 @@
 
 Test the access/error files are opened in append mode
 
-  $ $PYTHON -c "from __future__ import print_function; print(len(open('access.log', 'rb').readlines()), 'log lines written')"
+  $ "$PYTHON" -c "from __future__ import print_function; print(len(open('access.log', 'rb').readlines()), 'log lines written')"
   14 log lines written
 
 static file