diff --git a/71c81741495cdce132b6f45a0f596d70909c1e4d.patch b/71c81741495cdce132b6f45a0f596d70909c1e4d.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..c3831f5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/71c81741495cdce132b6f45a0f596d70909c1e4d.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,26 @@
+From 71c81741495cdce132b6f45a0f596d70909c1e4d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
+From: Christoph Reiter <reiter.christoph@gmail.com>
+Date: Sat, 15 Jun 2019 16:07:00 +0200
+Subject: [PATCH] enum: explicitely set enum.__str__
+
+Python 3.8 has removed the int.__str__ implementation. So we don't fall
+back to object.__str__ and thus enum.__repr__ set __str__ to int.__repr__
+instead. This gives us the same behaviour with all python versions.
+
+See https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/96aeaec64738b730
+---
+ cairo/enums.c | 1 +
+ 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
+
+diff --git a/cairo/enums.c b/cairo/enums.c
+index 08fbaf3..4273232 100644
+--- a/cairo/enums.c
++++ b/cairo/enums.c
+@@ -257,6 +257,7 @@ init_enums (PyObject *module) {
+     PyObject *ev;
+ 
+     Pycairo_IntEnum_Type.tp_repr = (reprfunc)int_enum_repr;
++    Pycairo_IntEnum_Type.tp_str = PYCAIRO_PyLong_Type.tp_repr;
+     Pycairo_IntEnum_Type.tp_flags = Py_TPFLAGS_DEFAULT | Py_TPFLAGS_BASETYPE;
+     Pycairo_IntEnum_Type.tp_methods = int_enum_methods;
+     Pycairo_IntEnum_Type.tp_base = &PYCAIRO_PyLong_Type;
diff --git a/pycairo.spec b/pycairo.spec
index 4bb5ce4..c5f31ee 100644
--- a/pycairo.spec
+++ b/pycairo.spec
@@ -7,6 +7,9 @@ License: MPLv1.1 or LGPLv2
 URL: http://cairographics.org/pycairo
 Source0: https://github.com/pygobject/pycairo/releases/download/v%{version}/pycairo-%{version}.tar.gz
 
+# Python 3.8 support
+Patch0: https://github.com/pygobject/pycairo/commit/71c81741495cdce132b6f45a0f596d70909c1e4d.patch
+
 BuildRequires: cairo-devel
 BuildRequires: gcc
 BuildRequires: pkgconfig
@@ -59,7 +62,7 @@ This package contains files required to build wrappers for cairo add-on
 libraries so that they interoperate with py3cairo.
 
 %prep
-%setup -q
+%autosetup -p1
 
 %build
 %py2_build