diff --git a/3.8/alpine3.12/Dockerfile b/3.8/alpine3.12/Dockerfile
index 4771c5da6..b212a2be2 100644
--- a/3.8/alpine3.12/Dockerfile
+++ b/3.8/alpine3.12/Dockerfile
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@
 FROM alpine:3.12
 
 # ensure local python is preferred over distribution python
-ENV PATH /usr/local/bin:$PATH
+ENV PATH /usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:$PATH
 
 # http://bugs.python.org/issue19846
 # > At the moment, setting "LANG=C" on a Linux system *fundamentally breaks Python 3*, and that's not OK.
@@ -17,6 +17,9 @@ ENV LANG C.UTF-8
 # other runtime dependencies for Python are installed later
 RUN apk add --no-cache ca-certificates
 
+# install libstdc++
+RUN apk add --no-cache libstdc++
+
 ENV GPG_KEY E3FF2839C048B25C084DEBE9B26995E310250568
 ENV PYTHON_VERSION 3.8.6
 
@@ -134,4 +137,10 @@ RUN set -ex; \
 		\) -exec rm -rf '{}' +; \
 	rm -f get-pip.py
 
-CMD ["python3"]
+# symlink to /usr/bin/python
+ENV PATH /usr/bin:$PATH
+RUN ln -s /usr/local/bin/python3 /usr/bin/python;
+RUN alias python=python3;
+RUN /usr/bin/python --version;
+
+ENTRYPOINT ["/usr/bin/python"]