diff --git a/gen.py b/gen.py
index e2fb6ee..2d3785e 100644
--- a/gen.py
+++ b/gen.py
@@ -113,7 +113,7 @@ content_map = {
 
 def index_content(dir_name, data_dir, index_txt, desc_txt, template):
 
-	print "	indexing content -- " + dir_name;
+	print("	indexing content -- " + dir_name);
 
 	# desc_txt is a markdown file containing description 
 	# for the project - no layout applied to it, only md
@@ -124,7 +124,7 @@ def index_content(dir_name, data_dir, index_txt, desc_txt, template):
 			desc_md = markdown.markdown(desc_file.read());
 			# transform markdown
 		except:
-			print "error opening description file: " + desc_txt;
+			print("error opening description file: " + desc_txt);
 			desc_md = None;
 			#return;
 
@@ -137,7 +137,7 @@ def index_content(dir_name, data_dir, index_txt, desc_txt, template):
 			index_file = open(index_txt, 'r+');
 			content_index = json.loads(index_file.read());
 		except:
-			print "error opening index: " + index_txt;
+			print("error opening index: " + index_txt);
 			content_index = None;
 			#return;
 
@@ -197,13 +197,13 @@ def index_content(dir_name, data_dir, index_txt, desc_txt, template):
 
 if __name__ == '__main__':
 
-	#fix python markdown utf8 nonsense
-	reload(sys);
-	sys.setdefaultencoding('utf8');
+	# #fix python markdown utf8 nonsense
+	# reload(sys);
+	# sys.setdefaultencoding('utf8');
 
 	parse_args();
 
-	print '1/3 - Configuring';
+	print('1/3 - Configuring');
 
 	# main index template
 	try:
@@ -229,7 +229,7 @@ if __name__ == '__main__':
 		print('error creating output file. aborting...');
 		sys.exit(0);
 
-	print '2/3 - Parsing input';
+	print('2/3 - Parsing input');
 
 	dirs = [d for d in os.listdir(input_dir) if not d == '_system' and os.path.isdir(os.path.join(input_dir,d))];
 
@@ -244,7 +244,7 @@ if __name__ == '__main__':
 			try:
 				indx = open(indx_txt, 'r+');
 			except:
-				print "error opening index: " + indx_txt;
+				print("error opening index: " + indx_txt);
 				continue;
 
 			txt = indx.read();
@@ -272,10 +272,10 @@ if __name__ == '__main__':
 				try:					
 					dirutil.copy_tree(data_dir, out_data_dir);
 				except:
-					print "error copying " + data_dir + " to " + out_data_dir + ". Continuing."
+					print("error copying " + data_dir + " to " + out_data_dir + ". Continuing.")
 					continue;
 
-	print '3/3 - Generating ouput';
+	print('3/3 - Generating ouput');
 
 	html = template.read().replace('[[content]]', content);
 
@@ -286,7 +286,7 @@ if __name__ == '__main__':
 	try:
 		dirutil.copy_tree(style_in, style_out);
 	except IOError as err:
-		print err;
+		print(err);
 
 	# robots.txt?
 	robots_in = os.path.join('.', 'robots.txt')
@@ -302,4 +302,4 @@ if __name__ == '__main__':
 	content_indx_template.close();
 	out.close();
 
-	print 'done.';
\ No newline at end of file
+	print('done.');
\ No newline at end of file