diff --git a/packages/python/build.sh b/packages/python/build.sh
index ef54201f1..0bef9a264 100644
--- a/packages/python/build.sh
+++ b/packages/python/build.sh
@@ -1,10 +1,10 @@
 TERMUX_PKG_HOMEPAGE=https://python.org/
 TERMUX_PKG_DESCRIPTION="Python 3 programming language intended to enable clear programs"
 TERMUX_PKG_LICENSE="PythonPL"
-_MAJOR_VERSION=3.8
-TERMUX_PKG_VERSION=${_MAJOR_VERSION}.6
+_MAJOR_VERSION=3.9
+TERMUX_PKG_VERSION=${_MAJOR_VERSION}.0
 TERMUX_PKG_SRCURL=https://www.python.org/ftp/python/${TERMUX_PKG_VERSION}/Python-${TERMUX_PKG_VERSION}.tar.xz
-TERMUX_PKG_SHA256=a9e0b79d27aa056eb9cce8d63a427b5f9bab1465dee3f942dcfdb25a82f4ab8a
+TERMUX_PKG_SHA256=9c73e63c99855709b9be0b3cc9e5b072cb60f37311e8c4e50f15576a0bf82854
 TERMUX_PKG_DEPENDS="gdbm, libandroid-support, libbz2, libcrypt, libffi, liblzma, libsqlite, ncurses, ncurses-ui-libs, openssl, readline, zlib"
 TERMUX_PKG_RECOMMENDS="clang, make, pkg-config"
 TERMUX_PKG_SUGGESTS="python-tkinter"
diff --git a/packages/python/fix-paths.patch b/packages/python/fix-paths.patch
index 5738ee079..1135b1b86 100644
--- a/packages/python/fix-paths.patch
+++ b/packages/python/fix-paths.patch
@@ -46,15 +46,14 @@ diff -uNr Python-3.6.2/Lib/posixpath.py Python-3.6.2.mod/Lib/posixpath.py
  altsep = None
  devnull = '/dev/null'
  
-diff -uNr Python-3.6.2/Lib/uuid.py Python-3.6.2.mod/Lib/uuid.py
---- Python-3.6.2/Lib/uuid.py	2017-07-08 06:33:27.000000000 +0300
-+++ Python-3.6.2.mod/Lib/uuid.py	2017-09-15 15:06:36.372797170 +0300
-@@ -306,7 +306,7 @@
-     import os, shutil, subprocess
-     executable = shutil.which(command)
-     if executable is None:
--        path = os.pathsep.join(('/sbin', '/usr/sbin'))
-+        path = '@TERMUX_PREFIX@/bin'
-         executable = shutil.which(command, path=path)
+diff -uNr Python-3.9.0/Lib/uuid.py Python-3.9.0.mod/Lib/uuid.py
+--- Python-3.9.0/Lib/uuid.py    2020-10-05 20:37:58.000000000 +0530
++++ Python-3.9.0.mod/Lib/uuid.py        2020-10-08 18:25:45.565373486 +0530
+@@ -361,7 +361,6 @@
+
+     try:
+         path_dirs = os.environ.get('PATH', os.defpath).split(os.pathsep)
+-        path_dirs.extend(['/sbin', '/usr/sbin'])
+         executable = shutil.which(command, path=os.pathsep.join(path_dirs))
          if executable is None:
              return None