diff --git a/srcpkgs/python3-pivy/patches/python3.12.patch b/srcpkgs/python3-pivy/patches/python3.12.patch
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..6742d757952
--- /dev/null
+++ b/srcpkgs/python3-pivy/patches/python3.12.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,23 @@
+From d3faf04b8770c60ca9b2186059ee82201e3620ad Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
+From: lorenz <looooo@users.noreply.github.com>
+Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2023 23:59:17 +0200
+Subject: [PATCH] python 3.12 support
+
+PyUnicode_GET_SIZE -> PyUnicode_GET_LENGTH
+---
+ Inventor/SoInput.i | 2 +-
+ 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
+
+diff --git a/Inventor/SoInput.i b/Inventor/SoInput.i
+index 0925ab50..f0be6383 100644
+--- a/Inventor/SoInput.i
++++ b/Inventor/SoInput.i
+@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@
+   if (PyUnicode_Check($input))
+   {
+     $1 = (void *) PyUnicode_AsUTF8($input);
+-    $2 = PyUnicode_GET_SIZE($input);
++    $2 = PyUnicode_GET_LENGTH($input);
+   }
+   else if (PyBytes_Check($input))
+   { 
diff --git a/srcpkgs/python3-pivy/template b/srcpkgs/python3-pivy/template
index aa82b37958b..2b984696fbd 100644
--- a/srcpkgs/python3-pivy/template
+++ b/srcpkgs/python3-pivy/template
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 # Template file for 'python3-pivy'
 pkgname=python3-pivy
 version=0.6.8
-revision=2
+revision=3
 build_style=cmake
 hostmakedepends="python3-devel swig"
 makedepends="python3-devel coin3-devel"