diff --git a/builds/runtimes/python-2.7.8 b/builds/runtimes/python-2.7.8
index 0700989..50eb1cc 100755
--- a/builds/runtimes/python-2.7.8
+++ b/builds/runtimes/python-2.7.8
@@ -4,12 +4,10 @@
 
 OUT_PREFIX=$1
 
-echo "Building Python..."
-SOURCE_TARBALL='http://python.org/ftp/python/2.7.8/Python-2.7.8.tgz'
-curl -L $SOURCE_TARBALL | tar xz
-mv Python-2.7.8 src
-cd src
+source ./download_python
+download_python "2.7.8"
 
+cd src
 ./configure --prefix=$OUT_PREFIX
 make
 make install