diff --git a/man/fail2ban-python.1 b/man/fail2ban-python.1
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+++ b/man/fail2ban-python.1
@@ -0,0 +1,72 @@
+.\" DO NOT MODIFY THIS FILE!  It was generated by help2man 1.47.5.
+.TH FAIL2BAN-PYTHON "1" "January 2018" "fail2ban-python f2bversion" "User Commands"
+.SH NAME
+fail2ban-python \- a helper for Fail2Ban to assure that the same Python is used
+.SH DESCRIPTION
+usage: ../bin/fail2ban\-python [option] ... [\-c cmd | \fB\-m\fR mod | file | \fB\-]\fR [arg] ...
+Options and arguments (and corresponding environment variables):
+\fB\-b\fR     : issue warnings about comparing bytearray with unicode
+.IP
+(\fB\-bb\fR: issue errors)
+.PP
+\fB\-B\fR     : don't write .py[co] files on import; also PYTHONDONTWRITEBYTECODE=x
+\fB\-c\fR cmd : program passed in as string (terminates option list)
+\fB\-d\fR     : debug output from parser; also PYTHONDEBUG=x
+\fB\-E\fR     : ignore PYTHON* environment variables (such as PYTHONPATH)
+\fB\-h\fR     : print this help message and exit (also \fB\-\-help\fR)
+\fB\-i\fR     : inspect interactively after running script; forces a prompt even
+.IP
+if stdin does not appear to be a terminal; also PYTHONINSPECT=x
+.PP
+\fB\-m\fR mod : run library module as a script (terminates option list)
+\fB\-O\fR     : optimize generated bytecode slightly; also PYTHONOPTIMIZE=x
+\fB\-OO\fR    : remove doc\-strings in addition to the \fB\-O\fR optimizations
+\fB\-R\fR     : use a pseudo\-random salt to make hash() values of various types be
+.IP
+unpredictable between separate invocations of the interpreter, as
+a defense against denial\-of\-service attacks
+.PP
+\fB\-Q\fR arg : division options: \fB\-Qold\fR (default), \fB\-Qwarn\fR, \fB\-Qwarnall\fR, \fB\-Qnew\fR
+\fB\-s\fR     : don't add user site directory to sys.path; also PYTHONNOUSERSITE
+\fB\-S\fR     : don't imply 'import site' on initialization
+\fB\-t\fR     : issue warnings about inconsistent tab usage (\fB\-tt\fR: issue errors)
+\fB\-u\fR     : unbuffered binary stdout and stderr; also PYTHONUNBUFFERED=x
+.IP
+see man page for details on internal buffering relating to '\-u'
+.PP
+\fB\-v\fR     : verbose (trace import statements); also PYTHONVERBOSE=x
+.IP
+can be supplied multiple times to increase verbosity
+.PP
+\fB\-V\fR     : print the Python version number and exit (also \fB\-\-version\fR)
+\fB\-W\fR arg : warning control; arg is action:message:category:module:lineno
+.IP
+also PYTHONWARNINGS=arg
+.PP
+\fB\-x\fR     : skip first line of source, allowing use of non\-Unix forms of #!cmd
+\fB\-3\fR     : warn about Python 3.x incompatibilities that 2to3 cannot trivially fix
+file   : program read from script file
+\-      : program read from stdin (default; interactive mode if a tty)
+arg ...: arguments passed to program in sys.argv[1:]
+.PP
+Other environment variables:
+PYTHONSTARTUP: file executed on interactive startup (no default)
+PYTHONPATH   : ':'\-separated list of directories prefixed to the
+.TP
+default module search path.
+The result is sys.path.
+.PP
+PYTHONHOME   : alternate <prefix> directory (or <prefix>:<exec_prefix>).
+.IP
+The default module search path uses <prefix>/pythonX.X.
+.PP
+PYTHONCASEOK : ignore case in 'import' statements (Windows).
+PYTHONIOENCODING: Encoding[:errors] used for stdin/stdout/stderr.
+PYTHONHASHSEED: if this variable is set to 'random', the effect is the same
+.IP
+as specifying the \fB\-R\fR option: a random value is used to seed the hashes of
+str, bytes and datetime objects.  It can also be set to an integer
+in the range [0,4294967295] to get hash values with a predictable seed.
+.SH "SEE ALSO"
+.br 
+fail2ban-client(1)
diff --git a/man/fail2ban-python.h2m b/man/fail2ban-python.h2m
new file mode 100644
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+++ b/man/fail2ban-python.h2m
@@ -0,0 +1,9 @@
+Include file for help2man man page
+$Id:  $
+
+[name]
+fail2ban-python \- a helper for Fail2Ban to assure that the same Python is used
+
+[see also]
+.br 
+fail2ban-client(1)
diff --git a/man/generate-man b/man/generate-man
index 1ce73f76..f7a7836c 100755
--- a/man/generate-man
+++ b/man/generate-man
@@ -4,6 +4,8 @@ set -eu
 
 export PYTHONPATH=..
 
+f2bversion=$(../bin/fail2ban-client --version | head -n1 | sed -e 's,.* v,,g')
+
 # fail2ban-client
 echo -n "Generating fail2ban-client "
 help2man --section=1 --no-info --include=fail2ban-client.h2m --output fail2ban-client.1 ../bin/fail2ban-client
@@ -35,6 +37,11 @@ for LINE in $LINES; do
 done
 echo "[done]"
 
+# fail2ban-python
+echo -n "Generating fail2ban-python "
+help2man --version-string=f2bversion --section=1 --no-info --include=fail2ban-python.h2m --output fail2ban-python.1 ../bin/fail2ban-python
+echo "[done]"
+
 # fail2ban-server
 echo -n "Generating fail2ban-server "
 help2man --section=1 --no-info --include=fail2ban-server.h2m --output fail2ban-server.1 ../bin/fail2ban-server