diff --git a/modules/io/pymod/hhsearch.py b/modules/io/pymod/hhsearch.py
index 5b8ebf3f6fd1390a4d9e5a2435adf1355b63b63e..a9f9e8402ef125984a4648adc647a5184c87d226 100644
--- a/modules/io/pymod/hhsearch.py
+++ b/modules/io/pymod/hhsearch.py
@@ -115,7 +115,7 @@ class HHSearchResult:
         q_seq+=re.split('\s+', line)[3]
       if line.startswith('T'):
         t_seq+=re.split('\s+', line)[3]        
-    ali=seq.MultiSeqAlignment()
+    ali=seq.AlignmentHandle()
     ali.AddSequence(seq.Sequence.FromString('query', q_seq))
     ali.AddSequence(seq.Sequence.FromString('target', t_seq))    
     return ali
diff --git a/modules/seq/base/pymod/export_sequence.cc b/modules/seq/base/pymod/export_sequence.cc
index 41e36d275df3348ab49c030daac56637967699bf..01e7417f312a7effcf927cbfcebd80f938064429 100644
--- a/modules/seq/base/pymod/export_sequence.cc
+++ b/modules/seq/base/pymod/export_sequence.cc
@@ -207,6 +207,7 @@ void export_sequence()
   def("SequenceToInfo", &SequenceToInfo);
   def("SequenceListToInfo", &SequenceListToInfo);
   def("SequenceFromInfo", &SequenceFromInfo);
+  def("CreateAlignment", &CreateAlignment);
   def("AlignmentFromSequenceList", &AlignmentFromSequenceList);
   def("SequenceListFromInfo", &SequenceListFromInfo);  
 }