diff --git a/scm/yaml_parser.scm b/scm/yaml_parser.scm
index 7930a52..577549e 100644
--- a/scm/yaml_parser.scm
+++ b/scm/yaml_parser.scm
@@ -4,9 +4,9 @@
   (let* ((python_cmd (string-append "import sys, yaml, json; print(json.dumps(yaml.safe_load(open('" filename "'))))"))
           ; WTF? On Windows there is "py" and we need to specify the encoding, on linux there is "python3" or "python"
           ; but "python3" seems to work better. Be sure you have PyYAML installed.
-          (pipe (open-pipe* OPEN_READ (if windows? "py" "python3") "-X" "utf8" "-c" python_cmd))
+          (pipe (open-pipe (string-append "PYTHONHOME='' " (if windows? "py" "python3") " -X utf8 -c \"" python_cmd "\"") OPEN_READ))
           (json (get-string-all pipe)))
     (close-pipe pipe)
     (json-string->scm json)))
 
-(define (parse-yml-file filename) (resolve-inherits (yml-file->scm filename)))
\ No newline at end of file
+(define (parse-yml-file filename) (resolve-inherits (yml-file->scm filename)))