diff --git a/contrib/datawave-quickstart/bin/query.sh b/contrib/datawave-quickstart/bin/query.sh
index ced895a3d66..d49aa64b4f1 100644
--- a/contrib/datawave-quickstart/bin/query.sh
+++ b/contrib/datawave-quickstart/bin/query.sh
@@ -131,21 +131,8 @@ function setQueryIdFromResponse() {
 }
 
 function prettyPrintJson() {
-    local PY=$( which python )
-    if [ -n "${PY}" ] ; then
-        echo "${1}" | ${PY} -c 'from __future__ import print_function;import sys,json;data=json.loads(sys.stdin.read()); print(json.dumps(data, indent=2, sort_keys=True))'
-        local exitStatus=$?
-        echo
-        if [ "${exitStatus}" != "0" ] ; then
-           printRawResponse "${1}"
-           warn "Python encountered error. Printed response without formatting"
-           echo
-        fi
-    else
-        printRawResponse "${1}"
-        warn "Couldn't find python in your environment. Json response was printed without formatting"
-        echo
-    fi
+    PY_CMD='from __future__ import print_function; import sys,json; data=json.loads(sys.stdin.read()); print(json.dumps(data, indent=2, sort_keys=True))'
+    echo "${1}" | ( python3 -c "${PY_CMD}" 2>/dev/null || python2 -c "${PY_CMD}" 2>/dev/null ) || ( warn "Python encountered error. Printed response without formatting" && printRawResponse "${1}" )
 }
 
 function printRawResponse() {
diff --git a/contrib/datawave-quickstart/bin/services/datawave/ingest-examples/tvmaze-api-query.sh b/contrib/datawave-quickstart/bin/services/datawave/ingest-examples/tvmaze-api-query.sh
index af1da19187e..69cf2d47fa5 100755
--- a/contrib/datawave-quickstart/bin/services/datawave/ingest-examples/tvmaze-api-query.sh
+++ b/contrib/datawave-quickstart/bin/services/datawave/ingest-examples/tvmaze-api-query.sh
@@ -38,10 +38,11 @@ TVMAZE_RESPONSE_STATUS=$( echo ${CURL_RESPONSE} | tr -d '\n' | sed -e 's/.*HTTP_
 [ "${TVMAZE_RESPONSE_STATUS}" != "200" ] && error "api.tvmaze.com returned invalid response status: ${TVMAZE_RESPONSE_STATUS}" && exit 1
 [ -z "${TVMAZE_RESPONSE_BODY}" ] && error "Response body is empty!" && exit 1
 
+PY_CMD='from __future__ import print_function; import sys,json; data=json.loads(sys.stdin.read()); print(json.dumps(data, indent=2, sort_keys=True))'
 if [ "${PRETTY}" == true ] ; then
-    echo "${TVMAZE_RESPONSE_BODY}" | python -c 'from __future__ import print_function;import sys,json;data=json.loads(sys.stdin.read()); print(json.dumps(data, indent=2, sort_keys=True))'
+  echo "${TVMAZE_RESPONSE_BODY}" | ( python3 -c "${PY_CMD}" 2>/dev/null || python2 -c "${PY_CMD}" 2>/dev/null ) || ( warn "Unable to pretty print, Python not detected" && echo "${TVMAZE_RESPONSE_BODY}" )
 else
-    echo "${TVMAZE_RESPONSE_BODY}"
+  echo "${TVMAZE_RESPONSE_BODY}"
 fi
 
 exit 0
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/contrib/datawave-quickstart/docker/Dockerfile b/contrib/datawave-quickstart/docker/Dockerfile
index 3d2e2bd238f..7396b0c7527 100644
--- a/contrib/datawave-quickstart/docker/Dockerfile
+++ b/contrib/datawave-quickstart/docker/Dockerfile
@@ -35,7 +35,7 @@ COPY . /opt/datawave
 
 # Install dependencies, configure password-less/zero-prompt SSH...
 
-RUN dnf -y install gcc-c++ openssl openssh openssh-server openssh-clients openssl-libs which bc wget git java-11-openjdk-devel iproute  && \
+RUN dnf -y install gcc-c++ openssl python3 openssh openssh-server openssh-clients openssl-libs which bc wget git java-11-openjdk-devel iproute  && \
     dnf clean all && \
     ssh-keygen -q -N "" -t rsa -f ~/.ssh/id_rsa && \
     cat ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub >> ~/.ssh/authorized_keys && \