diff --git a/gis/gdal/README b/gis/gdal/README
index 064469fb17..c959862f44 100644
--- a/gis/gdal/README
+++ b/gis/gdal/README
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ provides a similar capability for simple features vector data.
 The following optional requirements are detected automatically:
 
   cfitsio, freexl, hdf, hdf5, libkml, libwebp, netcdf,
-  postgresql, xerces-c
+  postgresql, python3, xerces-c
 
 To enable OpenCL GPU-accelerated performance, specify the option
 OPENCL=yes (requires opencl-headers to build, and either nvidia-driver
diff --git a/gis/gdal/gdal.SlackBuild b/gis/gdal/gdal.SlackBuild
index 3e16baad69..be5ff762f8 100644
--- a/gis/gdal/gdal.SlackBuild
+++ b/gis/gdal/gdal.SlackBuild
@@ -143,6 +143,14 @@ CXXFLAGS="$SLKCFLAGS" \
 make
 make install DESTDIR=$PKG
 
+if $(python3 -c 'import sys' 2>/dev/null); then
+  cd swig/python
+    rm -rf build
+    python3 setup.py build
+    python3 setup.py install --root=$PKG --prefix=/usr
+  cd - >/dev/null
+fi
+
 find $PKG | xargs file | grep -e "executable" -e "shared object" | grep ELF \
   | cut -f 1 -d : | xargs strip --strip-unneeded 2> /dev/null || true