diff --git a/ci/cpu/prebuild.sh b/ci/cpu/prebuild.sh
index 746c0005a47..8a2c9d9be7c 100755
--- a/ci/cpu/prebuild.sh
+++ b/ci/cpu/prebuild.sh
@@ -4,12 +4,13 @@
 set -e
 
 DEFAULT_CUDA_VER="11.5"
+DEFAULT_PYTHON_VER="3.8"
 
 #Always upload cudf Python package
 export UPLOAD_CUDF=1
 
 #Upload libcudf once per CUDA
-if [[ "$PYTHON" == "3.7" ]]; then
+if [[ "$PYTHON" == "${DEFAULT_PYTHON_VER}" ]]; then
     export UPLOAD_LIBCUDF=1
 else
     export UPLOAD_LIBCUDF=0
@@ -23,7 +24,7 @@ else
 fi
 
 #We only want to upload libcudf_kafka once per python/CUDA combo
-if [[ "$PYTHON" == "3.7" ]] && [[ "$CUDA" == "${DEFAULT_CUDA_VER}" ]]; then
+if [[ "$PYTHON" == "${DEFAULT_PYTHON_VER}" ]] && [[ "$CUDA" == "${DEFAULT_CUDA_VER}" ]]; then
     export UPLOAD_LIBCUDF_KAFKA=1
 else
     export UPLOAD_LIBCUDF_KAFKA=0