diff --git a/python3.patch b/python3.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..c1c3b1c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/python3.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,18 @@
+Index: rrdtool-1.7.0/m4/acinclude.m4
+===================================================================
+--- rrdtool-1.7.0.orig/m4/acinclude.m4
++++ rrdtool-1.7.0/m4/acinclude.m4
+@@ -426,12 +426,7 @@ AC_DEFUN([AM_CHECK_PYTHON_HEADERS],
+ [AC_REQUIRE([AM_PATH_PYTHON])
+ AC_MSG_CHECKING(for headers required to compile python extensions)
+ dnl deduce PYTHON_INCLUDES
+-py_prefix=`$PYTHON -c "import sys; print(sys.prefix)"`
+-py_exec_prefix=`$PYTHON -c "import sys; print(sys.exec_prefix)"`
+-PYTHON_INCLUDES="-I${py_prefix}/include/python${PYTHON_VERSION}"
+-if test "$py_prefix" != "$py_exec_prefix"; then
+-  PYTHON_INCLUDES="$PYTHON_INCLUDES -I${py_exec_prefix}/include/python${PYTHON_VERSION}"
+-fi
++PYTHON_INCLUDES="-I"`$PYTHON -c "import sysconfig; print(sysconfig.get_path('include'))"`
+ AC_SUBST(PYTHON_INCLUDES)
+ dnl check if the headers exist:
+ save_CPPFLAGS="$CPPFLAGS"
diff --git a/rrdtool.changes b/rrdtool.changes
index 96e3add..5af6341 100644
--- a/rrdtool.changes
+++ b/rrdtool.changes
@@ -4,6 +4,11 @@ Thu Nov 23 13:53:48 UTC 2017 - rbrown@suse.com
 - Replace references to /var/adm/fillup-templates with new 
   %_fillupdir macro (boo#1069468)
 
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Fri Nov 10 18:20:19 UTC 2017 - jmatejek@suse.com
+
+- build bindings for Python 3 instead of Python 2
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Mon Jul 24 12:14:04 UTC 2017 - dimstar@opensuse.org
 
diff --git a/rrdtool.spec b/rrdtool.spec
index 9ff4f76..ae51cf6 100644
--- a/rrdtool.spec
+++ b/rrdtool.spec
@@ -44,6 +44,7 @@ Source99:       %{name}.changes
 Patch3:         rrdtool-tclsegfault.patch
 # PATCH-FIX-UPSTREAM -- bnc#793636
 Patch12:        rrdtool-zero_vs_nothing.patch
+Patch13:        python3.patch
 # Needed for tests
 BuildRequires:  bc
 BuildRequires:  cairo-devel >= 1.2
@@ -62,8 +63,8 @@ BuildRequires:  systemd-rpm-macros
 BuildRequires:  zlib-devel
 Requires:       dejavu
 %if %{with python}
-BuildRequires:  python-devel
-BuildRequires:  python-setuptools
+BuildRequires:  python3-devel
+BuildRequires:  python3-setuptools
 %endif
 %if %{with lua}
 BuildRequires:  lua-devel
@@ -149,13 +150,13 @@ This package contains the Lua bindings.
 %endif
 
 %if %{with python}
-%package -n python-%{name}
+%package -n python3-%{name}
 Summary:        Python bindings for RRDtool
 Group:          Development/Languages/Python
 Requires:       %{name} = %{version}-%{release}
-Requires:       python
+Requires:       python3
 
-%description -n python-%{name}
+%description -n python3-%{name}
 Python RRDtool bindings.
 %endif
 
@@ -209,6 +210,7 @@ daemon was written to alleviate these problems.
 %setup -q
 %patch3
 %patch12 -p1
+%patch13 -p1
 
 # rrd_tool/rrd_cgi: use the date of the last change
 modified="$(sed -n '/^----/n;s/ - .*$//;p;q' "%{_sourcedir}/%{name}.changes")"
@@ -217,6 +219,9 @@ TIME="\"$(date -d "${modified}" "+%%R")\""
 find . -name '*.c' -exec sed -i "s/__DATE__/${DATE}/g;s/__TIME__/${TIME}/g" "{}" "+"
 
 %build
+# we are patching configure, we need to reconf
+autoreconf -fi
+
 # --disable-nls: there is only partial hungarian translation, does not make %{?_smp_mflags}
 #                much sense to ship package for it
 %configure \
@@ -363,9 +368,9 @@ getent passwd %{rrdcached_user} >/dev/null || useradd -s /sbin/nologin -g %{rrdc
 %endif
 
 %if %{with python}
-%files -n python-%{name}
+%files -n python3-%{name}
 %doc bindings/python/COPYING bindings/python/README.md
-%{py_sitedir}/*
+%{python3_sitearch}/*
 %endif
 
 %if %{with ruby}