diff --git a/dev-cpp/glibmm/glibmm-2.64.5.ebuild b/dev-cpp/glibmm/glibmm-2.64.5.ebuild
index db0034cef7502..25300c2afb5dc 100644
--- a/dev-cpp/glibmm/glibmm-2.64.5.ebuild
+++ b/dev-cpp/glibmm/glibmm-2.64.5.ebuild
@@ -2,7 +2,8 @@
 # Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
 
 EAPI=7
-inherit gnome.org meson multilib-minimal
+PYTHON_COMPAT=( python3_{7..9} )
+inherit gnome.org meson multilib-minimal python-any-r1
 
 DESCRIPTION="C++ interface for glib2"
 HOMEPAGE="https://www.gtkmm.org"
@@ -19,6 +20,7 @@ RDEPEND="
 "
 DEPEND="${RDEPEND}"
 BDEPEND="
+	${PYTHON_DEPS}
 	virtual/pkgconfig
 	>=dev-cpp/mm-common-1.0.0
 	sys-devel/m4
diff --git a/dev-cpp/glibmm/glibmm-2.68.0.ebuild b/dev-cpp/glibmm/glibmm-2.68.0.ebuild
index 16c2ce0ff9945..2cf6d1781f546 100644
--- a/dev-cpp/glibmm/glibmm-2.68.0.ebuild
+++ b/dev-cpp/glibmm/glibmm-2.68.0.ebuild
@@ -2,7 +2,8 @@
 # Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
 
 EAPI=7
-inherit gnome.org meson multilib-minimal
+PYTHON_COMPAT=( python3_{7..9} )
+inherit gnome.org meson multilib-minimal python-any-r1
 
 DESCRIPTION="C++ interface for glib2"
 HOMEPAGE="https://www.gtkmm.org"
@@ -19,6 +20,7 @@ RDEPEND="
 "
 DEPEND="${RDEPEND}"
 BDEPEND="
+	${PYTHON_DEPS}
 	virtual/pkgconfig
 	doc? (
 		app-doc/doxygen[dot]