diff --git a/gtk/gentypefuncs.d b/gtk/gentypefuncs.d
deleted file mode 100755
index f7a052823f..0000000000
--- a/gtk/gentypefuncs.d
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,45 +0,0 @@
-#!/usr/bin/rdmd
-
-import std.stdio;
-import std.file;
-import std.process;
-import std.regex;
-import std.array;
-import std.algorithm;
-
-void main(string[] args) {
-	string out_file   = args[1];
-	string[] in_files = args[3..$];
-
-	auto regex = ctRegex!("g[td]k_[a-zA-Z0-9_]*_get_type");
-
-	string[] funcs;
-
-	foreach (filename; in_files) {
-		auto file = File(filename);
-		foreach (line; file.byLine()) {
-			auto match = line.matchFirst(regex);
-			if (!match.empty) {
-				// *cough*, not exactly the fastest way to do this...
-				if (!funcs.canFind(match.hit))
-					funcs ~= cast(string)match.hit.idup;
-			}
-		}
-	}
-
-	funcs.sort();
-
-	//writeln(funcs);
-	//writeln(funcs.length);
-
-	string file_output = "G_GNUC_BEGIN_IGNORE_DEPRECATIONS\n";
-	foreach (func; funcs) {
-		if (func.startsWith("gdk_x11") || func.startsWith("gtk_socket") || func.startsWith("gtk_plug")) {
-			file_output ~= "#ifdef GDK_WINDOWING_X11\n*tp++ = " ~ func ~ "();\n#endif\n";
-		} else if (func != ("gtk_text_handle_get_type")){
-			file_output ~= "*tp++ = " ~ func ~ "();\n";
-		}
-	}
-
-	std.file.write(out_file, file_output);
-}
diff --git a/gtk/gentypefuncs.py b/gtk/gentypefuncs.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..46beebdf1c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/gtk/gentypefuncs.py
@@ -0,0 +1,49 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python
+# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
+
+import sys
+import re
+import os
+
+debug = os.getenv('GTK_GENTYPEFUNCS_DEBUG') is not None
+
+out_file = sys.argv[1]
+in_files = sys.argv[2:]
+
+funcs = []
+
+
+if debug: print 'Output file: ', out_file
+
+if debug: print len(in_files), 'input files'
+
+for filename in in_files:
+  if debug: print 'Input file: ', filename
+  with open(filename, "r") as f:
+    for line in f:
+      line = line.rstrip('\n').rstrip('\r')
+      # print line
+      match = re.search(r'\bg[td]k_[a-zA-Z0-9_]*_get_type\b', line)
+      if match:
+        func = match.group(0)
+        if not func in funcs:
+          funcs.append(func)
+          if debug: print 'Found', func
+
+file_output = 'G_GNUC_BEGIN_IGNORE_DEPRECATIONS\n'
+
+funcs = sorted(funcs)
+
+for f in funcs:
+  if f.startswith('gdk_x11') or f.startswith('gtk_socket') or f.startswith('gtk_plug'):
+    file_output += '#ifdef GDK_WINDOWING_X11\n'
+    file_output += '*tp++ = {0}();\n'.format(f)
+    file_output += '#endif\n'
+  else:
+    file_output += '*tp++ = {0}();\n'.format(f)
+
+if debug: print len(funcs), 'functions'
+
+ofile = open(out_file, "w")
+ofile.write(file_output)
+ofile.close()
diff --git a/gtk/meson.build b/gtk/meson.build
index 0a655ebdd2..b0745575fc 100644
--- a/gtk/meson.build
+++ b/gtk/meson.build
@@ -741,8 +741,7 @@ gtkprivatetypebuiltins_c = custom_target(
   command : [mkenum, perl, glib_mkenums, meson.current_source_dir() + '/gtkprivatetypebuiltins.c.template', '@OUTPUT@', '@INPUT@']
 )
 
-d_compiler = find_program('dmd')
-gentypefuncs_prog = find_program('gentypefuncs.d')
+gentypefuncs_prog = find_program('gentypefuncs.py')
 # Generate gtktypefuncs.c
 typefuncs = custom_target(
   'typefuncs',