diff --git a/cppcheck-1.90-htmlreport-python2.patch b/cppcheck-1.90-htmlreport-python2.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index d9bde5e..0000000
--- a/cppcheck-1.90-htmlreport-python2.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,27 +0,0 @@
-diff -up cppcheck-1.90/htmlreport/cppcheck-htmlreport.orig cppcheck-1.90/htmlreport/cppcheck-htmlreport
---- cppcheck-1.90/htmlreport/cppcheck-htmlreport.orig	2019-12-21 11:51:10.000000000 +0100
-+++ cppcheck-1.90/htmlreport/cppcheck-htmlreport	2019-12-22 10:56:52.071627890 +0100
-@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
--#!/usr/bin/env python
-+#!/usr/bin/python
- 
- from __future__ import unicode_literals
- 
-diff -up cppcheck-1.90/htmlreport/setup.py.orig cppcheck-1.90/htmlreport/setup.py
---- cppcheck-1.90/htmlreport/setup.py.orig	2019-12-21 11:51:10.000000000 +0100
-+++ cppcheck-1.90/htmlreport/setup.py	2019-12-22 10:56:51.984631669 +0100
-@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
--#!/usr/bin/env python
-+#!/usr/bin/python
- 
- from setuptools import setup
- 
-diff -up cppcheck-1.90/htmlreport/test_htmlreport.py.orig cppcheck-1.90/htmlreport/test_htmlreport.py
---- cppcheck-1.90/htmlreport/test_htmlreport.py.orig	2019-12-21 11:51:10.000000000 +0100
-+++ cppcheck-1.90/htmlreport/test_htmlreport.py	2019-12-22 10:56:52.012630453 +0100
-@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
--#!/usr/bin/env python
-+#!/usr/bin/python
- """Test cppcheck-htmlreport."""
- 
- import os
diff --git a/cppcheck.spec b/cppcheck.spec
index 20b01fc..e19a42b 100644
--- a/cppcheck.spec
+++ b/cppcheck.spec
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
 
 Name:           cppcheck
 Version:        1.90
-Release:        3%{?dist}
+Release:        4%{?dist}
 Summary:        Tool for static C/C++ code analysis
 License:        GPLv3+
 URL:            http://cppcheck.wiki.sourceforge.net/
@@ -15,8 +15,6 @@ Patch0:         cppcheck-1.90-tinyxml.patch
 Patch1:         cppcheck-1.89-translations.patch
 # Select python3 explicitly
 Patch2:         cppcheck-1.88-htmlreport-python3.patch
-# for RHEL7 we still have python2
-Patch3:         cppcheck-1.90-htmlreport-python2.patch
 
 BuildRequires:  gcc-c++
 BuildRequires:  pcre-devel
@@ -32,7 +30,7 @@ BuildRequires:  zlib-devel
 # no qt5-devel metapackage!
 BuildRequires:  qt5-qtbase-devel
 BuildRequires:  qt5-linguist
-BuildRequires:  python-devel
+BuildRequires:  python%{python3_pkgversion}-devel
 BuildRequires:  cmake3
 %else
 BuildRequires:  qt5-devel
@@ -64,7 +62,7 @@ Summary:        HTML reporting for cppcheck
 Requires:       %{name}%{?_isa} = %{version}-%{release}
 %if 0%{?rhel} == 7
 # RHEL packages aren't versioned
-Requires:       python-pygments
+Requires:       python%{python3_pkgversion}-pygments
 %else
 Requires:       python3-pygments
 %endif
@@ -77,11 +75,7 @@ from xml files first generated using cppcheck.
 %setup -q
 %patch0 -p1 -b .tinyxml
 %patch1 -p1 -b .translations
-%if 0%{?rhel} == 7
-%patch3 -p1 -b .python2
-%else
 %patch2 -p1 -b .python3
-%endif
 # Make sure bundled tinyxml is not used
 rm -r externals/tinyxml
 
@@ -143,6 +137,9 @@ cd objdir-%{_target_platform}/bin
 %{_bindir}/cppcheck-htmlreport
 
 %changelog
+* Tue Dec 24 2019 Wolfgang Stöggl <c72578@yahoo.de> - 1.90-4
+- Use python3 on EPEL7
+
 * Mon Dec 23 2019 Susi Lehtola <jussilehtola@fedoraproject.org> - 1.90-3
 - Fix typo in CMake flag (Stöggl's pull request #3).