diff --git a/libxml2/PKGBUILD b/libxml2/PKGBUILD
index cfb5b285..ec4bb8e3 100644
--- a/libxml2/PKGBUILD
+++ b/libxml2/PKGBUILD
@@ -1,14 +1,13 @@
 # Maintainer: Alexey Pavlov <alexpux@gmail.com>
 
-pkgname=('libxml2' 'libxml2-devel')
+pkgname=('libxml2' 'libxml2-devel' 'libxml2-python')
 pkgver=2.9.1
-pkgrel=2
+pkgrel=3
 pkgdesc="XML parsing library, version 2"
 arch=(i686 x86_64)
 license=('MIT')
 depends=('coreutils' 'zlib' 'libreadline' 'ncurses' 'liblzma')
 makedepends=('python2' 'python3')
-install=libxml2.install
 url="http://www.xmlsoft.org/"
 source=(ftp://ftp.xmlsoft.org/${pkgname}/${pkgname}-${pkgver}.tar.gz
         http://www.w3.org/XML/Test/xmlts20080827.tar.gz
@@ -35,6 +34,9 @@ md5sums=('9c0cfef285d5c4a5c80d00904ddab380'
          '1fbd4215c81ca3286873bfb2a3f101f3'
          'c024dbf5eb208fad6dde89dc9819bc90')
 
+PYTHON_SITELIB=/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages
+PYTHON_LIB=/usr/lib/python2.7
+
 prepare() {
   cd ${srcdir}
   mv xmlconf -t ${pkgname}-${pkgver}
@@ -63,10 +65,14 @@ build() {
     --prefix=/usr \
     --enable-ipv6 \
     --with-history \
+	--with-python=/usr/bin/python2 \
     --with-html-dir=/usr/share/doc \
     --with-html-subdir=libxml2/html
   make
   make DESTDIR=${srcdir}/dest install
+  
+  mv ${srcdir}/dest${PYTHON_SITELIB}/${pkgname/lib/msys-}mod.dll ${srcdir}/dest${PYTHON_SITELIB}/${pkgname}mod.dll
+  sed -i -e "s:${pkgname/lib/msys-}mod:${PN}mod:g" ${srcdir}/dest${PYTHON_SITELIB}/${pkgname}mod.la
 }
 
 check() {
@@ -76,8 +82,9 @@ check() {
 
 package_libxml2() {
   groups=('libraries')
+  install=libxml2.install
   
-  mkdir -p ${pkgdir}/usr/share
+  mkdir -p ${pkgdir}/usr/{lib,share}
   cp -rf ${srcdir}/dest/usr/bin ${pkgdir}/usr/
   rm -f ${pkgdir}/usr/bin/*-config
   cp -rf ${srcdir}/dest/usr/share/man ${pkgdir}/usr/share/
@@ -94,7 +101,22 @@ package_libxml2-devel() {
   cp -f ${srcdir}/dest/usr/bin/*-config ${pkgdir}/usr/bin/
   cp -rf ${srcdir}/dest/usr/include ${pkgdir}/usr/
   cp -rf ${srcdir}/dest/usr/lib ${pkgdir}/usr/
+  rm -rf ${pkgdir}${PYTHON_SITELIB}
   cp -rf ${srcdir}/dest/usr/share/aclocal ${pkgdir}/usr/share/
   cp -rf ${srcdir}/dest/usr/share/doc ${pkgdir}/usr/share/
+  rm -rf ${pkgdir}/usr/share/doc/python-libxml2
   cp -rf ${srcdir}/dest/usr/share/gtk-doc ${pkgdir}/usr/share/
-}
\ No newline at end of file
+}
+
+package_libxml2-python(){
+  pkgdesc="Libxml2 python modules"
+  depends=('libxml2')
+  groups=('python-modules')
+  options=('staticlibs')
+  install=libxml2-python.install
+ 
+  mkdir -p ${pkgdir}/${PYTHON_SITELIB}
+  mkdir -p ${pkgdir}/usr/share/doc
+  cp -rf ${srcdir}/dest${PYTHON_SITELIB}/* ${pkgdir}${PYTHON_SITELIB}/
+  cp -rf ${srcdir}/dest/usr/share/doc/python-libxml2 ${pkgdir}/usr/share/doc/
+}
diff --git a/libxml2/libxml2-python.install b/libxml2/libxml2-python.install
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..0baef5af
--- /dev/null
+++ b/libxml2/libxml2-python.install
@@ -0,0 +1,24 @@
+PYTHON_SITELIB=usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages
+PYTHON_LIB=usr/lib/python2.7
+
+python_optimize() {
+	local pyd
+
+	for pyd in "${@:-${PYTHON_SITELIB}}"
+	do
+		if [ ! -d ${D}${pyd} ]
+		then
+			echo "Error: directory ${pyd} does not exist"
+		fi
+
+		echo "Compiling ${pyd}..."
+		bin/python2 ${PYTHON_LIB}/compileall.py -f -q -d ${pyd} ${D}${pyd}
+		bin/python2 -OO ${PYTHON_LIB}/compileall.py -f -q -d ${pyd} ${D}${pyd}
+	done
+}
+
+post_install() {
+  python_optimize
+  
+  rm -f ${PYTHON_SITELIB}/*.a
+}