diff -uNr a/bundled/gcp/google-cloud-sdk/bin/gcloud b/bundled/gcp/google-cloud-sdk/bin/gcloud
--- a/bundled/gcp/google-cloud-sdk/bin/gcloud	2019-04-04 12:01:28.838027640 +0200
+++ b/bundled/gcp/google-cloud-sdk/bin/gcloud	2019-04-04 12:03:21.577089065 +0200
@@ -74,24 +74,7 @@
 
 # if CLOUDSDK_PYTHON is empty
 if [ -z "$CLOUDSDK_PYTHON" ]; then
-  # if python2 exists then plain python may point to a version != 2
-  if _cloudsdk_which python2 >/dev/null; then
-    CLOUDSDK_PYTHON=python2
-  elif _cloudsdk_which python2.7 >/dev/null; then
-    # this is what some OS X versions call their built-in Python
-    CLOUDSDK_PYTHON=python2.7
-  elif _cloudsdk_which python >/dev/null; then
-    # Use unversioned python if it exists.
-    CLOUDSDK_PYTHON=python
-  elif _cloudsdk_which python3 >/dev/null; then
-    # We support python3, but only want to default to it if nothing else is
-    # found.
-    CLOUDSDK_PYTHON=python3
-  else
-    # This won't work because it wasn't found above, but at this point this
-    # is our best guess for the error message.
-    CLOUDSDK_PYTHON=python
-  fi
+  CLOUDSDK_PYTHON="/usr/libexec/platform-python"
 fi
 
 # $PYTHONHOME can interfere with gcloud. Users should use