diff --git a/gyp/pylib/gyp/easy_xml.py b/gyp/pylib/gyp/easy_xml.py
index ed67618742..8be319087f 100644
--- a/gyp/pylib/gyp/easy_xml.py
+++ b/gyp/pylib/gyp/easy_xml.py
@@ -122,7 +122,7 @@ def WriteXmlIfChanged(content, path, encoding="utf-8", pretty=False, win32=False
 
     default_encoding = locale.getdefaultlocale()[1]
     if default_encoding and default_encoding.upper() != encoding.upper():
-        if (sys.version_info[0] >= 3) and (sys.version_info[1] >= 7):
+        if sys.version_info >= (3, 7):
             xml_string = xml_string.encode(encoding)
         else:
             xml_string = xml_string.decode("cp1251").encode(encoding)