diff --git a/dev-python/elasticsearch-py/elasticsearch-py-2.2.0.ebuild b/dev-python/elasticsearch-py/elasticsearch-py-2.2.0.ebuild
index b846f6102febc..746f3ac724dd6 100644
--- a/dev-python/elasticsearch-py/elasticsearch-py-2.2.0.ebuild
+++ b/dev-python/elasticsearch-py/elasticsearch-py-2.2.0.ebuild
@@ -80,7 +80,7 @@ python_compile_all() {
 
 python_install_all() {
 	use doc && HTML_DOCS=( docs/_build/html/. )
-	use examples && local EXAMPLES=( example/. )
+	use examples && dodoc -r example
 	doman docs/_build/man/*
 	distutils-r1_python_install_all
 }
diff --git a/dev-python/elasticsearch-py/elasticsearch-py-2.3.0.ebuild b/dev-python/elasticsearch-py/elasticsearch-py-2.3.0.ebuild
index ca2a9407f9ff6..1e92e88dc8e15 100644
--- a/dev-python/elasticsearch-py/elasticsearch-py-2.3.0.ebuild
+++ b/dev-python/elasticsearch-py/elasticsearch-py-2.3.0.ebuild
@@ -84,7 +84,7 @@ python_compile_all() {
 
 python_install_all() {
 	use doc && HTML_DOCS=( docs/_build/html/. )
-	use examples && local EXAMPLES=( example/. )
+	use examples && dodoc -r example
 	doman docs/_build/man/*
 	distutils-r1_python_install_all
 }