diff --git a/chapter06/meson.xml b/chapter06/meson.xml
index 884ce847d..fed402f46 100644
--- a/chapter06/meson.xml
+++ b/chapter06/meson.xml
@@ -52,9 +52,9 @@
 
     <para>At last, move Meson man pages to correct location:</para>
 
-<screen><userinput remap="install">mv -v /usr/lib/python3.7/site-packages/meson-&meson-version;-py3.7.egg/share/man/man1/*.1 \
+<screen><userinput remap="install">mv -v /usr/lib/python&python-minor;/site-packages/meson-&meson-version;-py&python-minor;.egg/share/man/man1/*.1 \
       /usr/share/man/man1
-rm -r /usr/lib/python3.7/site-packages/meson-&meson-version;-py3.7.egg/share</userinput></screen>
+rm -r /usr/lib/python&python-minor;/site-packages/meson-&meson-version;-py&python-minor;.egg/share</userinput></screen>
 
   </sect2>
 
@@ -68,7 +68,7 @@ rm -r /usr/lib/python3.7/site-packages/meson-&meson-version;-py3.7.egg/share</us
 
       <seglistitem>
         <seg>meson, mesonconf, mesonintrospect, mesontest, and wraptool</seg>
-		<seg>/usr/lib/python3.7/site-packages/meson-&meson-version;-py3.7.egg</seg>
+		<seg>/usr/lib/python&python-minor;/site-packages/meson-&meson-version;-py&python-minor;.egg</seg>
       </seglistitem>
     </segmentedlist>
 
diff --git a/chapter06/python.xml b/chapter06/python.xml
index 3aafa110e..e044f339f 100644
--- a/chapter06/python.xml
+++ b/chapter06/python.xml
@@ -89,14 +89,14 @@
     <para>Install the package:</para>
 
 <screen><userinput remap="install">make install
-chmod -v 755 /usr/lib/libpython3.7m.so
+chmod -v 755 /usr/lib/libpython&python-minor;m.so
 chmod -v 755 /usr/lib/libpython3.so</userinput></screen>
 
     <variablelist>
       <title>The meaning of the install commands:</title>
-
+<!-- ======  Change 7m if Python minor version changes ======= -->
     <varlistentry>
-      <term><command>chmod -v 755 /usr/lib/libpython3.{6m.,}so</command></term>
+      <term><command>chmod -v 755 /usr/lib/libpython3.{7m.,}so</command></term>
       <listitem>
         <para>Fix permissions for libraries to be consistent with other
         libraries.</para>
@@ -145,10 +145,10 @@ tar --strip-components=1  \
           2to3, idle3, pydoc3, python3, python3-config, pyvenv
         </seg>
         <seg>
-          libpython3.6m.so and libpython3.so
+          libpython&python-minor;m.so and libpython3.so
         </seg>
         <seg>
-          /usr/include/python3.6m, /usr/lib/python3 and
+          /usr/include/python&python-minor;m, /usr/lib/python3 and
           /usr/share/doc/python-&python-version;
         </seg>
       </seglistitem>
diff --git a/packages.ent b/packages.ent
index 4a2fba1b2..f1c324b4d 100644
--- a/packages.ent
+++ b/packages.ent
@@ -568,6 +568,7 @@
      meson pages will be needed: python3.6 and python3.6m -->
 
 <!ENTITY python-version "3.7.0">
+<!ENTITY python-minor "3.7">
 <!ENTITY python-size "16,526 KB">
 <!ENTITY python-url "https://www.python.org/ftp/python/&python-version;/Python-&python-version;.tar.xz">
 <!ENTITY python-md5 "eb8c2a6b1447d50813c02714af4681f3">