diff --git a/Library/Homebrew/formula_installer.rb b/Library/Homebrew/formula_installer.rb
index 0836e7a9f0..1e2d77b2c5 100644
--- a/Library/Homebrew/formula_installer.rb
+++ b/Library/Homebrew/formula_installer.rb
@@ -179,6 +179,7 @@ class FormulaInstaller
     recursive_runtime_formulae.each do |f|
       name = f.name
       unversioned_name, = name.split("@")
+      next if unversioned_name == "python"
       version_hash[unversioned_name] ||= Set.new
       version_hash[unversioned_name] << name
       next if version_hash[unversioned_name].length < 2