diff --git a/examples/simple/compile.sh b/examples/simple/compile.sh
index 8b8d9de126a5182ca1583f6e6637914a2d98ac16..468f77ef760a0591e9a6643a570f6af3263f40fe 100644
--- a/examples/simple/compile.sh
+++ b/examples/simple/compile.sh
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 (cd ../../lib/c; make)
 (cd ../../compiler ; ant jar)
 
-java -jar ../../compiler/labComm.jar --java=gen --c=gen/simple.c --h=gen/simple.h  simple.lc 
+java -jar ../../compiler/labComm.jar --java=gen --c=gen/simple.c --h=gen/simple.h  --python=gen/simple.py simple.lc 
 
 javac -cp ../../lib/java:. gen/*.java Encoder.java Decoder.java
 
diff --git a/examples/simple/run.sh b/examples/simple/run.sh
index d37f0a770719c028011c63ca252ba7a476bb4df3..9cd5726159ebb786f75335147c61cd2cb0f4401f 100644
--- a/examples/simple/run.sh
+++ b/examples/simple/run.sh
@@ -2,3 +2,7 @@ java -cp .:../../lib/java:gen Encoder encoded_data
 ./example_decoder encoded_data
 ./example_encoder encoded_data
 java -cp .:../../lib/java:gen Decoder encoded_data
+
+echo "running python decoder (from wiki_example):"
+PYTHONPATH=../../lib/python ../wiki_example/example_decoder.py encoded_data
+