diff --git a/docs/CHANGELOG.md b/docs/CHANGELOG.md
index 6199e5a6..cb714b7f 100644
--- a/docs/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/docs/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -2,6 +2,10 @@
 
 All changes to this project will be documented in this file.
 
+## [10.2.9] - 2020-08-19
+
+(ws) cobra to python bot / take a module python name as argument foo.bar.baz instead of a path foo/bar/baz.py
+
 ## [10.2.8] - 2020-08-19
 
 (ws) on Linux with mbedtls, when the system ca certs are specified (the default) pick up sensible OS supplied paths (tested with CentOS and Alpine)
diff --git a/ixbots/ixbots/IXCobraToPythonBot.cpp b/ixbots/ixbots/IXCobraToPythonBot.cpp
index 384c51ff..7f8fc5d3 100644
--- a/ixbots/ixbots/IXCobraToPythonBot.cpp
+++ b/ixbots/ixbots/IXCobraToPythonBot.cpp
@@ -102,7 +102,7 @@ namespace ix
 {
     int64_t cobra_to_python_bot(const ix::CobraBotConfig& config,
                                 StatsdClient& statsdClient,
-                                const std::string& scriptPath)
+                                const std::string& moduleName)
     {
 #ifndef IXBOTS_USE_PYTHON
         CoreLogger::error("Command is disabled. "
@@ -113,10 +113,7 @@ namespace ix
         Py_InitializeEx(0); // 0 arg so that we do not install signal handlers 
                             // which prevent us from using Ctrl-C
 
-        size_t lastIndex = scriptPath.find_last_of("."); 
-        std::string modulePath = scriptPath.substr(0, lastIndex);
-
-        PyObject* pyModuleName = PyUnicode_DecodeFSDefault(modulePath.c_str());
+        PyObject* pyModuleName = PyUnicode_DecodeFSDefault(moduleName.c_str());
 
         if (pyModuleName == nullptr)
         {
diff --git a/ixbots/ixbots/IXCobraToPythonBot.h b/ixbots/ixbots/IXCobraToPythonBot.h
index 448234e7..ad96c110 100644
--- a/ixbots/ixbots/IXCobraToPythonBot.h
+++ b/ixbots/ixbots/IXCobraToPythonBot.h
@@ -15,5 +15,5 @@ namespace ix
 {
     int64_t cobra_to_python_bot(const ix::CobraBotConfig& config,
                                 StatsdClient& statsdClient,
-                                const std::string& scriptPath);
+                                const std::string& moduleName);
 } // namespace ix
diff --git a/ixwebsocket/IXWebSocketVersion.h b/ixwebsocket/IXWebSocketVersion.h
index 13a03f37..5df38a9c 100644
--- a/ixwebsocket/IXWebSocketVersion.h
+++ b/ixwebsocket/IXWebSocketVersion.h
@@ -6,4 +6,4 @@
 
 #pragma once
 
-#define IX_WEBSOCKET_VERSION "10.2.8"
+#define IX_WEBSOCKET_VERSION "10.2.9"
diff --git a/ws/ws.cpp b/ws/ws.cpp
index 66deda8f..03da67b9 100644
--- a/ws/ws.cpp
+++ b/ws/ws.cpp
@@ -2814,7 +2814,7 @@ int main(int argc, char** argv)
     std::string project;
     std::string key;
     std::string logfile;
-    std::string scriptPath;
+    std::string moduleName;
     std::string republishChannel;
     std::string sendMsg("hello world");
     ix::SocketTLSOptions tlsOptions;
@@ -3085,8 +3085,7 @@ int main(int argc, char** argv)
     cobra2python->add_option("--host", hostname, "Statsd host");
     cobra2python->add_option("--port", statsdPort, "Statsd port");
     cobra2python->add_option("--prefix", prefix, "Statsd prefix");
-    cobra2python->add_option("--script", scriptPath, "Python script path")
-        ->check(CLI::ExistingPath);
+    cobra2python->add_option("--module", moduleName, "Python module");
     cobra2python->add_option("--pidfile", pidfile, "Pid file");
     addTLSOptions(cobra2python);
     addCobraBotConfig(cobra2python);
@@ -3389,7 +3388,7 @@ int main(int argc, char** argv)
         }
         else
         {
-            ret = (int) ix::cobra_to_python_bot(cobraBotConfig, statsdClient, scriptPath);
+            ret = (int) ix::cobra_to_python_bot(cobraBotConfig, statsdClient, moduleName);
         }
     }
     else if (app.got_subcommand("cobra_to_sentry"))