diff --git a/modules/mol/alg/pymod/export_svd_superpose.cc b/modules/mol/alg/pymod/export_svd_superpose.cc
index 3acdc6f6b7d0bef234d00cde96a0e14b76b02a91..b10a4b7c1df864db313d2d4c18066c555ee0fd07 100644
--- a/modules/mol/alg/pymod/export_svd_superpose.cc
+++ b/modules/mol/alg/pymod/export_svd_superpose.cc
@@ -43,8 +43,8 @@ void export_svdSuperPose()
                &SuperpositionResult::entity_view2)
   ;
   def("SuperposeAtoms", &SuperposeAtoms,(arg("apply_transform")=true));
-  def("SuperposeSVD", sup1);
-  def("SuperposeSVD", sup2);
+  def("SuperposeSVD", sup1, (arg("apply_transform")=true));
+  def("SuperposeSVD", sup2, (arg("apply_transform")=true));
   def("CalculateRMSD", &CalculateRMSD, (arg("transformation")=geom::Mat4()));
   def("IterativeSuperposition", &IterativeSuperposition, (arg("ncycles")=200,
                                                           arg("dist_thres")=4.0,