diff --git a/python/feedparser/001_py37.diff b/python/feedparser/001_py37.diff
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..5182a5b2b8
--- /dev/null
+++ b/python/feedparser/001_py37.diff
@@ -0,0 +1,23 @@
+--- setup.py.orig	2015-07-24 15:00:04.000000000 +1000
++++ setup.py	2019-06-24 21:34:06.883000000 +1000
+@@ -35,6 +35,9 @@
+         'Programming Language :: Python :: 3.2',
+         'Programming Language :: Python :: 3.3',
+         'Programming Language :: Python :: 3.4',
++        'Programming Language :: Python :: 3.5',
++        'Programming Language :: Python :: 3.6',
++        'Programming Language :: Python :: 3.7',
+         'Topic :: Software Development :: Libraries :: Python Modules',
+         'Topic :: Text Processing :: Markup :: XML',
+     ],
+--- feedparser/feedparser.py.orig	2015-07-24 15:00:04.000000000 +1000
++++ feedparser/feedparser.py	2019-06-24 22:15:09.636000000 +1000
+@@ -130,6 +130,8 @@
+ #ACCEPTABLE_URI_SCHEMES = ()
+ 
+ # ---------- required modules (should come with any Python distribution) ----------
++from __future__ import absolute_import, unicode_literals
++
+ import cgi
+ import codecs
+ import copy
diff --git a/python/feedparser/README b/python/feedparser/README
index 1d9eefaa38..dc062ac5d6 100644
--- a/python/feedparser/README
+++ b/python/feedparser/README
@@ -1 +1,3 @@
-feedparser is a Python utility to parse RSS and Atom feeds.
+feedparser is a Python utility library to parse RSS and Atom feeds.
+
+A python3 version is included if python3 is detected at buildtime.
diff --git a/python/feedparser/feedparser.SlackBuild b/python/feedparser/feedparser.SlackBuild
index 8f657c6a38..3231c59195 100644
--- a/python/feedparser/feedparser.SlackBuild
+++ b/python/feedparser/feedparser.SlackBuild
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 
 # Slackware build script for feedparser
 # Modified by Luis Henrique <lmello.009@gmail.com>
-# Maintained 2014-2016 by Christoph Willing <chris.willing@linux.com>
+# Maintained 2014-2019 by Christoph Willing <chris.willing@linux.com>
 
 # Copyright 2008-2009 Chess Griffin <chess@chessgriffin.com>
 # All rights reserved.
@@ -64,7 +64,7 @@ rm -rf $PKG
 mkdir -p $TMP $PKG $OUTPUT
 cd $TMP
 rm -rf $PRGNAM-$VERSION
-tar xf $CWD/$VERSION.tar.gz || tar xf $CWD/$PRGNAM-$VERSION.tar.gz
+tar xf $CWD/$PRGNAM-$VERSION.tar.gz
 cd $PRGNAM-$VERSION
 chown -R root:root .
 find -L . \
@@ -75,6 +75,19 @@ find -L . \
 
 python setup.py build
 python setup.py install --root $PKG
+if $(python3 -c 'import sys' 2>/dev/null); then
+  # Python3 doesn't have sgmllib so we provide it here for building
+  # and later installation as part of the feedparser package.
+  cp feedparser/sgmllib3.py feedparser/sgmllib.py
+  PYTHONPATH=$(pwd)/feedparser:$PYTHONPATH
+
+  patch -p0 < $CWD/001_py37.diff
+  python3 setup.py build
+  python3 setup.py install --root $PKG
+
+  PYSITEDIR=$(python3 -c "import site; print(site.getsitepackages()[0])")
+  install -m 0644 feedparser/sgmllib.py $PKG/$PYSITEDIR
+fi
 
 find $PKG -print0 | xargs -0 file | grep -e "executable" -e "shared object" | grep ELF \
   | cut -f 1 -d : | xargs strip --strip-unneeded 2> /dev/null || true
diff --git a/python/feedparser/feedparser.info b/python/feedparser/feedparser.info
index 7ba4b29c89..fe8c8895d9 100644
--- a/python/feedparser/feedparser.info
+++ b/python/feedparser/feedparser.info
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 PRGNAM="feedparser"
 VERSION="5.2.1"
 HOMEPAGE="https://github.com/kurtmckee/feedparser"
-DOWNLOAD="https://github.com/kurtmckee/feedparser/archive/5.2.1.tar.gz"
+DOWNLOAD="https://github.com/kurtmckee/feedparser/archive/5.2.1/feedparser-5.2.1.tar.gz"
 MD5SUM="885d800496ffd538920960b9dbc45faf"
 DOWNLOAD_x86_64=""
 MD5SUM_x86_64=""