diff --git a/README.rst b/README.rst
index 802ee5b..2431591 100644
--- a/README.rst
+++ b/README.rst
@@ -55,6 +55,7 @@ AppEngine's svn repository. To apply the patch, do
 the following from a command line::
 
   $ cd googleappengine-read-only
+  $ cd python/ # need to do this if you checked out all the different AE languages
   $ patch -p0 < gae_patch_r46.txt
 
 you should see output similar to::
diff --git a/gae_patches/gae_patch_r46.txt b/gae_patches/gae_patch_r46.txt
index f789e00..202a728 100644
--- a/gae_patches/gae_patch_r46.txt
+++ b/gae_patches/gae_patch_r46.txt
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
-Index: python/dev_appserver.py
+Index: dev_appserver.py
 ===================================================================
---- python/dev_appserver.py (revision 46)
-+++ python/dev_appserver.py (working copy)
+--- dev_appserver.py (revision 46)
++++ dev_appserver.py (working copy)
 @@ -37,6 +37,7 @@
  SCRIPT_DIR = os.path.join(DIR_PATH, 'google', 'appengine', 'tools')
 
@@ -10,10 +10,10 @@ Index: python/dev_appserver.py
    DIR_PATH,
    os.path.join(DIR_PATH, 'lib', 'antlr3'),
    os.path.join(DIR_PATH, 'lib', 'django'),
-Index: python/google/appengine/tools/dev_appserver.py
+Index: google/appengine/tools/dev_appserver.py
 ===================================================================
---- python/google/appengine/tools/dev_appserver.py  (revision 46)
-+++ python/google/appengine/tools/dev_appserver.py  (working copy)
+--- google/appengine/tools/dev_appserver.py  (revision 46)
++++ google/appengine/tools/dev_appserver.py  (working copy)
 @@ -76,7 +76,7 @@
  from google.appengine.api import appinfo
  from google.appengine.api import croninfo