diff --git a/library/python/3.8.0-alpine/Dockerfile b/library/python/3.8.0-alpine/Dockerfile
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+FROM lcr.loongnix.cn/library/alpine:3.19
+
+LABEL maintainer="yangzewei@loongson.cn"
+
+ENV PATH /usr/local/bin:$PATH
+
+# http://bugs.python.org/issue19846
+# > At the moment, setting "LANG=C" on a Linux system *fundamentally breaks Python 3*, and that's not OK.
+ENV LANG C.UTF-8
+
+
+# runtime dependencies
+RUN set -eux; \
+	apk add --no-cache \
+		ca-certificates \
+		wget \
+	;
+
+ARG PYTHON_VERSION 3.8.0
+ENV PYTHON_VERSION ${PYTHON_VERSION}
+
+RUN set -eux; \
+	\
+	apk add --no-cache --virtual .fetch-deps \
+		gnupg \
+		tar \
+		xz \
+	; \
+	\
+	wget -O python.tar.xz "https://www.python.org/ftp/python/${PYTHON_VERSION%%[a-z]*}/Python-$PYTHON_VERSION.tar.xz"; \
+	mkdir -p /usr/src/python && tar --extract --directory /usr/src/python --strip-components=1 --file python.tar.xz --no-same-owner && \
+	rm python.tar.xz; \
+	\
+	apk add --no-cache --virtual .build-deps \
+		bzip2-dev \
+		coreutils \
+		dpkg-dev dpkg \
+		expat-dev \
+		findutils \
+		gcc \
+		gdbm-dev \
+		libc-dev \
+		libffi-dev \
+		libnsl-dev \
+		libtirpc-dev \
+		linux-headers \
+		make \
+		ncurses-dev \
+		openssl-dev \
+		pax-utils \
+		readline-dev \
+		sqlite-dev \
+		tcl-dev \
+		tk \
+		tk-dev \
+		util-linux-dev \
+		xz-dev \
+		zlib-dev \
+	; \
+	\
+	cd /usr/src/python; \
+# update config.sub && config.guess
+	wget -O ./config.sub "git.savannah.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=config.git;a=blob_plain;f=config.sub;hb=HEAD"; \
+	wget -O ./config.guess "git.savannah.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=config.git;a=blob_plain;f=config.guess;hb=HEAD"; \
+	gnuArch="$(dpkg-architecture --query DEB_BUILD_GNU_TYPE)"; \
+	./configure \
+		--build="$gnuArch" \
+		--enable-loadable-sqlite-extensions \
+		--enable-optimizations \
+		--enable-option-checking=fatal \
+		--enable-shared \
+		--with-system-expat \
+		--without-ensurepip \
+	; \
+	nproc="$(nproc)"; \
+	make -j "$nproc" \
+# set thread stack size to 1MB so we don't segfault before we hit sys.getrecursionlimit()
+# https://github.com/alpinelinux/aports/commit/2026e1259422d4e0cf92391ca2d3844356c649d0
+		EXTRA_CFLAGS="-DTHREAD_STACK_SIZE=0x100000" \
+	; \
+	make install; \
+	\
+	cd /; \
+	rm -rf /usr/src/python; \
+	\
+	find /usr/local -depth \
+		\( \
+			\( -type d -a \( -name test -o -name tests -o -name idle_test \) \) \
+			-o \( -type f -a \( -name '*.pyc' -o -name '*.pyo' -o -name 'libpython*.a' \) \) \
+			-o \( -type f -a -name 'wininst-*.exe' \) \
+		\) -exec rm -rf '{}' + \
+	; \
+	\
+	find /usr/local -type f -executable -not \( -name '*tkinter*' \) -exec scanelf --needed --nobanner --format '%n#p' '{}' ';' \
+		| tr ',' '\n' \
+		| sort -u \
+		| awk 'system("[ -e /usr/local/lib/" $1 " ]") == 0 { next } { print "so:" $1 }' \
+		| xargs -rt apk add --no-network --virtual .python-rundeps \
+	; \
+	apk del --no-network .build-deps; \
+	\
+	python3 --version
+
+# make some useful symlinks that are expected to exist ("/usr/local/bin/python" and friends)
+RUN set -eux; \
+	for src in idle3 pydoc3 python3 python3-config; do \
+		dst="$(echo "$src" | tr -d 3)"; \
+		[ -s "/usr/local/bin/$src" ]; \
+		[ ! -e "/usr/local/bin/$dst" ]; \
+		ln -svT "$src" "/usr/local/bin/$dst"; \
+	done
+
+# if this is called "PIP_VERSION", pip explodes with "ValueError: invalid truth value '<VERSION>'"
+ENV PYTHON_PIP_VERSION 19.3.1
+# https://github.com/pypa/get-pip
+ARG PYTHON_GET_PIP_URL https://github.com/pypa/get-pip/raw/ffe826207a010164265d9cc807978e3604d18ca0/get-pip.py
+ENV PYTHON_GET_PIP_URL ${PYTHON_GET_PIP_URL}
+
+RUN set -ex; \
+	\
+	wget -O get-pip.py "$PYTHON_GET_PIP_URL"; \
+	\
+	export PYTHONDONTWRITEBYTECODE=1; \
+	\
+	python get-pip.py \
+		--disable-pip-version-check \
+		--no-cache-dir \
+		--no-compile \
+		"pip==$PYTHON_PIP_VERSION" \
+	; \
+	rm -f get-pip.py; \
+	\
+	pip --version
+
+CMD ["python3"]
diff --git a/library/python/3.8.0-alpine/Makefile b/library/python/3.8.0-alpine/Makefile
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+# This file is generated by the template.
+
+REGISTRY?=lcr.loongnix.cn
+ORGANIZATION?=python
+REPOSITORY?=python3
+TAG?=3.8.0-alpine
+
+IMAGE=$(REGISTRY)/$(ORGANIZATION)/$(REPOSITORY):$(TAG)
+
+PYTHON_VERSION?=3.8.0
+PYTHON_PIP_VERSION?=19.3.1
+PYTHON_GET_PIP_URL?=https://github.com/pypa/get-pip/raw/ffe826207a010164265d9cc807978e3604d18ca0/get-pip.py
+
+default: image
+
+image: 
+	docker build \
+		--build-arg PYTHON_VERSION=${PYTHON_VERSION} \
+		--build-arg PYTHON_GET_PIP_URL=${PYTHON_GET_PIP_URL} \
+		--build-arg http_proxy=$(http_proxy) \
+		--build-arg https_proxy=$(https_proxy) \
+		-t $(IMAGE) \
+		.
+
+push:
+	docker push $(IMAGE)