diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 8612c5af5..e975c7308 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
+	* fix python3 portability issue in python binding
 	* delay 5 seconds before reconnecting socks5 proxy for UDP ASSOCIATE
 	* fix NAT-PMP crash when removing a mapping at the wrong time
 	* improve path sanitization (filter unicode text direction characters)
diff --git a/bindings/python/src/boost_python.hpp b/bindings/python/src/boost_python.hpp
index 12c1f3ea2..a807c9631 100644
--- a/bindings/python/src/boost_python.hpp
+++ b/bindings/python/src/boost_python.hpp
@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@
 
 #include <libtorrent/aux_/disable_warnings_push.hpp>
 #include <boost/python.hpp>
+#include <boost/python/stl_iterator.hpp>
 #include <libtorrent/aux_/disable_warnings_pop.hpp>
 
 #endif
diff --git a/bindings/python/src/session.cpp b/bindings/python/src/session.cpp
index bbddc7692..197fda47f 100644
--- a/bindings/python/src/session.cpp
+++ b/bindings/python/src/session.cpp
@@ -106,11 +106,10 @@ namespace
 
 	void make_settings_pack(lt::settings_pack& p, dict const& sett_dict)
 	{
-		list iterkeys = (list)sett_dict.keys();
-		int const len = boost::python::len(iterkeys);
-		for (int i = 0; i < len; i++)
+		stl_input_iterator<std::string> i(sett_dict.keys()), end;
+		for (; i != end; ++i)
 		{
-			std::string const key = extract<std::string>(iterkeys[i]);
+			std::string const key = *i;
 
 			int sett = setting_by_name(key);
 			if (sett < 0)