diff --git a/dev-python/tweepy/tweepy-3.5.0.ebuild b/dev-python/tweepy/tweepy-3.5.0.ebuild
index 603f325a84eee..f5c8f65b38def 100644
--- a/dev-python/tweepy/tweepy-3.5.0.ebuild
+++ b/dev-python/tweepy/tweepy-3.5.0.ebuild
@@ -47,6 +47,10 @@ python_compile_all() {
 
 python_install_all() {
 	use doc && local HTML_DOCS=( docs/_build/html/. )
-	use examples && local EXAMPLES=( examples/. )
+	if use examples; then
+		dodoc -r examples
+		docompress -x /usr/share/doc/${PF}/examples
+	fi
+
 	distutils-r1_python_install_all
 }