diff --git a/Formula/c/chapel.rb b/Formula/c/chapel.rb
index 9b3c075524cd..e6e42f0ce624 100644
--- a/Formula/c/chapel.rb
+++ b/Formula/c/chapel.rb
@@ -1,10 +1,11 @@
 class Chapel < Formula
+  include Language::Python::Shebang
   desc "Programming language for productive parallel computing at scale"
   homepage "https://chapel-lang.org/"
   url "https://github.com/chapel-lang/chapel/releases/download/2.1.0/chapel-2.1.0.tar.gz"
   sha256 "72593c037505dd76e8b5989358b7580a3fdb213051a406adb26a487d26c68c60"
   license "Apache-2.0"
-  revision 2
+  revision 3
   head "https://github.com/chapel-lang/chapel.git", branch: "main"
 
   bottle do
@@ -44,6 +45,12 @@ def install
     # It should be noted that this will expand to: 'for cmd in python3.12 python3 python python2; do'
     # in our find-python.sh script.
     inreplace "util/config/find-python.sh", /^(for cmd in )(python3 )/, "\\1#{python} \\2"
+    inreplace "third-party/chpl-venv/Makefile", "python3 -c ", "#{python} -c "
+
+    # a lot of scripts have a python3 or python shebang, which does not point to python3.12 anymore
+    Pathname.glob("**/*.py") do |pyfile|
+      rewrite_shebang detected_python_shebang, pyfile
+    end
 
     libexec.install Dir["*"]
     # Chapel uses this ENV to work out where to install.
@@ -51,6 +58,7 @@ def install
     ENV["CHPL_GMP"] = "system"
     # This ENV avoids a problem where cmake cache is invalidated by subsequent make calls
     ENV["CHPL_CMAKE_USE_CC_CXX"] = "1"
+    ENV["CHPL_CMAKE_PYTHON"] = python
 
     # don't try to set CHPL_LLVM_GCC_PREFIX since the llvm
     # package should be configured to use a reasonable GCC