diff --git a/openvswitch.spec b/openvswitch.spec
index 986aa4348cb1e530e86c7a365f631bb041dcde68..6ae3e607994416cadebc76a2ebd9fca1370f93ab 100644
--- a/openvswitch.spec
+++ b/openvswitch.spec
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+# Enable Python 3 by specifying '--with build_python3'.
+# This is enabled by default for versions of the distribution that
+# have Python 3 by default.
+%bcond_with build_python3
+
 Name:           openvswitch
 Summary:        Production Quality, Multilayer Open Virtual Switch
 URL:            http://www.openvswitch.org/
@@ -12,6 +17,9 @@ Patch0002:      0002-Remove-unsupported-permission-names.patch
 Patch0003:      0003-Fallback-to-read-proc-net-dev-on-linux.patch
 Requires:       logrotate hostname python >= 3.8 python3-six selinux-policy-targeted
 BuildRequires:  python3-six, openssl-devel checkpolicy selinux-policy-devel autoconf automake libtool python-sphinx unbound-devel
+%if %{with build_python3}
+BuildRequires:  python3-devel
+%endif
 Provides:       openvswitch-selinux-policy = %{version}-%{release}
 Obsoletes:      openvswitch-selinux-policy < %{version}-%{release}
 
@@ -34,6 +42,19 @@ Summary:        Helpful information for Open vSwitch
 %description help
 Documents and helpful information for Open vSwitch.
 
+%if %{with build_python3}
+%package -n python3-openvswitch
+Summary: Open vSwitch python3 bindings
+License: ASL 2.0
+BuildArch: noarch
+Requires: python3
+Requires: python3-six
+%{?python_provide:%python_provide python3-openvswitch = %{version}-%{release}}
+
+%description -n python3-openvswitch
+Python bindings for the Open vSwitch database
+%endif
+
 %prep
 %autosetup -p1 
 
@@ -188,6 +209,11 @@ exit 0
 /var/log/openvswitch
 %{_datadir}/selinux/packages/%{name}/openvswitch-custom.pp
 
+%if %{with build_python3}
+%files -n python3-openvswitch
+%{python3_sitelib}/ovs
+%endif
+
 %files devel
 %{_libdir}/lib*.so
 %{_libdir}/lib*.a