diff --git a/462.patch b/462.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..c72dba3
--- /dev/null
+++ b/462.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,24 @@
+From b53d5c65e025ef87cc126c5207678ac7619dbae1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
+From: "Joshua \"jag\" Ginsberg" <jag@flowtheory.net>
+Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2019 18:56:41 -0500
+Subject: [PATCH] Fixes to traceback calls in pycons
+
+---
+ gnucash/python/pycons/shell.py | 4 ++--
+ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
+
+diff --git a/gnucash/python/pycons/shell.py b/gnucash/python/pycons/shell.py
+index dfdc0d8ba0..33cff53592 100644
+--- a/gnucash/python/pycons/shell.py
++++ b/gnucash/python/pycons/shell.py
+@@ -166,8 +166,8 @@ def execute (self, console):
+                     tb = sys.exc_traceback
+                     if tb:
+                         tb=tb.tb_next
+-                    traceback.print(_exception (sys.exc_type, sys.exc_value, tb))
++                    traceback.print_exception(sys.exc_type, sys.exc_value, tb)
+                 except:
+                     sys.stderr, console.stderr = console.stderr, sys.stderr
+-                    traceback.print(_exc())
++                    traceback.print_exc()
+ 
diff --git a/gnucash.spec b/gnucash.spec
index b46d5a0..d64b370 100644
--- a/gnucash.spec
+++ b/gnucash.spec
@@ -2,10 +2,11 @@ Name: gnucash
 Summary: Finance management application
 Version: 3.4
 URL: http://gnucash.org/
-Release: 3%{?dist}
+Release: 4%{?dist}
 License: GPLv2+
 Source: http://downloads.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/gnucash/gnucash-%{version}.tar.bz2
 Patch0001: https://github.com/Gnucash/gnucash/pull/456.patch
+Patch0002: https://github.com/Gnucash/gnucash/pull/462.patch
 # https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1563466
 ExcludeArch: ppc64 s390x
 
@@ -44,7 +45,7 @@ balanced books.
 %build
 # thanks gcc8
 %global optflags %{optflags} -Wno-parentheses
-%cmake .
+%cmake -D WITH_PYTHON=ON .
 %make_build
 
 %install
@@ -88,6 +89,9 @@ appstream-util validate-relax --nonet $RPM_BUILD_ROOT%{_datadir}/metainfo/gnucas
 %config(noreplace) %{_sysconfdir}/gnucash/*
 
 %changelog
+* Wed Feb 20 2019 Bill Nottingham <notting@splat.cc> - 3.4-4
+- reenable (and apply patch for) python bindings
+
 * Sun Feb 17 2019 Elliott Sales de Andrade <quantum.analyst@gmail.com> - 3.4-3
 - Backport strncpy overflow-warning fix.