diff --git a/pylast/__init__.py b/pylast/__init__.py
index 32bf15c..38dc47c 100644
--- a/pylast/__init__.py
+++ b/pylast/__init__.py
@@ -39,14 +39,14 @@ __license__ = "apache2"
 __email__ = 'amr.hassan@gmail.com'
 
 
-if sys.version_info[0] == 3:
+if sys.version_info.major == 3:
     import html.entities as htmlentitydefs
     from http.client import HTTPSConnection
     from urllib.parse import quote_plus as url_quote_plus
 
     unichr = chr
 
-elif sys.version_info[0] == 2:
+elif sys.version_info.major == 2:
     import htmlentitydefs
     from httplib import HTTPSConnection
     from urllib import quote_plus as url_quote_plus
@@ -2608,7 +2608,7 @@ def _string(string):
     if isinstance(string, str):
         return string
     casted = six.text_type(string)
-    if sys.version_info[0] == 2:
+    if sys.version_info.major == 2:
         casted = casted.encode("utf-8")
     return casted