Python – AH01215: (8) Exec format error: exec of ‘/var/www/python/hello.py’ failed: /var/www/python/hello.py

I am trying to run python as CGI in apache server. Python version is 2.7.12.
Here is my apache conf file

<VirtualHost *:80>
   <Directory /var/www/python>
   Options +ExecCGI
   AddHandler cgi-script .cgi .py
   Order allow,deny
   Allow from all
   </Directory>
   DocumentRoot /var/www/python
   ErrorLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/error.log
   CustomLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/access.log combined
</VirtualHost>

My python script /var/www/python/hello.py looks like this

print('Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8\n')
print("Hello, World!")

When I access the url I get the Internal Server Error, I got the details from error.log file and it says ,

[Sun Dec 11 09:53:40.694909 2016] [cgi:error] [pid 6812] [client 127.0.0.1:36282] AH01215: (8)Exec format error: exec of '/var/www/python/hello.py' failed: /var/www/python/hello.py
[Sun Dec 11 09:53:40.695312 2016] [cgi:error] [pid 6812] [client 127.0.0.1:36282] End of script output before headers: hello.py

PHP scripts are still working fine on the server.
How to fix this issue with py files ?