diff --git a/meta/recipes-devtools/python/python3/python3-manifest.json b/meta/recipes-devtools/python/python3/python3-manifest.json
index 64203cf0fc..7b6f509a45 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-devtools/python/python3/python3-manifest.json
+++ b/meta/recipes-devtools/python/python3/python3-manifest.json
@@ -203,6 +203,7 @@
         "files": [
             "${bindir}/python${PYTHON_MAJMIN}",
             "${bindir}/python${PYTHON_MAJMIN}.real",
+            "${bindir}/python",
             "${bindir}/python3",
             "${includedir}/python${PYTHON_MAJMIN}/pyconfig*.h",
             "${libdir}/python${PYTHON_MAJMIN}/UserDict.py",
diff --git a/meta/recipes-devtools/python/python3_3.11.0.bb b/meta/recipes-devtools/python/python3_3.11.0.bb
index 92a1f69320..18b631f79d 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-devtools/python/python3_3.11.0.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-devtools/python/python3_3.11.0.bb
@@ -144,6 +144,7 @@ do_install:prepend() {
 
 do_install:append:class-target() {
         oe_multilib_header python${PYTHON_MAJMIN}/pyconfig.h
+        ${@bb.utils.contains('DISTRO_FEATURES', 'python2', '', 'ln -sf ./python3 ${D}${bindir}/python', d)}
 }
 
 do_install:append:class-native() {
@@ -156,6 +157,7 @@ do_install:append:class-native() {
         # (these often end up too long for the #! parser in the kernel as the
         # buffer is 128 bytes long).
         ln -s python3-native/python3 ${D}${bindir}/nativepython3
+        ${@bb.utils.contains('DISTRO_FEATURES', 'python2', '', 'ln -sf ./python3-native/python3 ${D}${bindir}/nativepython', d)}
 
         # Remove the opt-1.pyc and opt-2.pyc files. There are over 3,000 of them
         # and the overhead in each recipe-sysroot-native isn't worth it, particularly
@@ -213,6 +215,7 @@ do_install:append() {
 }
 
 do_install:append:class-nativesdk () {
+    ${@bb.utils.contains('DISTRO_FEATURES', 'python2', '', 'ln -sf ./python3 ${D}${bindir}/python', d)}
     # Make sure we use /usr/bin/env python
     for PYTHSCRIPT in `grep -rIl ${bindir}/python ${D}${bindir}`; do
          sed -i -e '1s|^#!.*|#!/usr/bin/env python3|' $PYTHSCRIPT
@@ -376,6 +379,7 @@ RRECOMMENDS:${PN}-crypt:append:class-nativesdk = " ${MLPREFIX}openssl ${MLPREFIX
 
 # For historical reasons PN is empty and provided by python3-modules
 FILES:${PN} = ""
+RPROVIDES:${PN} = "${@bb.utils.contains('DISTRO_FEATURES', 'python2', '', '${bindir}/python', d)}"
 RPROVIDES:${PN}-modules = "${PN}"
 
 FILES:${PN}-pydoc += "${bindir}/pydoc${PYTHON_MAJMIN} ${bindir}/pydoc3"