diff --git a/lib/puppet/provider/package/pip3.rb b/lib/puppet/provider/package/pip3.rb
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..5afb615
--- /dev/null
+++ b/lib/puppet/provider/package/pip3.rb
@@ -0,0 +1,134 @@
+# Puppet - Automating Configuration Management.
+
+# Copyright (C) 2005-2012 Puppet Labs Inc
+# Copyright 2013 Red Hat, Inc.
+
+# Puppet Labs can be contacted at: info@puppetlabs.com
+
+# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+# you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+# You may obtain a copy of the License at
+
+# http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+# limitations under the License.
+
+# Puppet package provider for Python's `pip3` package management frontend.
+# <http://pip.openplans.org/>
+#
+# Loosely based on the 'pip' package provider in puppet 2.7.
+require 'puppet/provider/package'
+require 'xmlrpc/client'
+
+Puppet::Type.type(:package).provide :pip3,
+  :parent => ::Puppet::Provider::Package do
+
+  desc "Python packages via `python-pip3`."
+
+  has_feature :installable, :uninstallable, :upgradeable, :versionable
+
+  # Parse lines of output from `pip freeze`, which are structured as
+  # _package_==_version_.
+  def self.parse(line)
+    if line.chomp =~ /^([^=]+)==([^=]+)$/
+      {:ensure => $2, :name => $1, :provider => name}
+    else
+      nil
+    end
+  end
+
+  # Return an array of structured information about every installed package
+  # that's managed by `pip` or an empty array if `pip` is not available.
+  def self.instances
+    packages = []
+    execpipe "#{pip3_cmd} freeze" do |process|
+      process.collect do |line|
+        next unless options = parse(line)
+        packages << new(options)
+      end
+    end
+    packages
+  end
+
+  # Return structured information about a particular package or `nil` if
+  # it is not installed or `pip` itself is not available.
+  def query
+    self.class.instances.each do |provider_pip|
+      return provider_pip.properties if @resource[:name] == provider_pip.name
+    end
+    return nil
+  end
+
+  # Ask the PyPI API for the latest version number.  There is no local
+  # cache of PyPI's package list so this operation will always have to
+  # ask the web service.
+  def latest
+    client = XMLRPC::Client.new2("http://pypi.python.org/pypi")
+    client.http_header_extra = {"Content-Type" => "text/xml"}
+    client.timeout = 10
+    result = client.call("package_releases", @resource[:name])
+    result.first
+  rescue Timeout::Error => detail
+    raise Puppet::Error, "Timeout while contacting pypi.python.org: #{detail}";
+  end
+
+  # Install a package.  The ensure parameter may specify installed,
+  # latest, a version number, or, in conjunction with the source
+  # parameter, an SCM revision.  In that case, the source parameter
+  # gives the fully-qualified URL to the repository.
+  def install
+    args = %w{install -q}
+    if @resource[:source]
+      args << "-e"
+      if String === @resource[:ensure]
+        args << "#{@resource[:source]}@#{@resource[:ensure]}#egg=#{
+          @resource[:name]}"
+      else
+        args << "#{@resource[:source]}#egg=#{@resource[:name]}"
+      end
+    else
+      case @resource[:ensure]
+      when String
+        args << "#{@resource[:name]}==#{@resource[:ensure]}"
+      when :latest
+        args << "--upgrade" << @resource[:name]
+      else
+        args << @resource[:name]
+      end
+    end
+    lazy_pip *args
+  end
+
+  # Uninstall a package.  Uninstall won't work reliably on Debian/Ubuntu
+  # unless this issue gets fixed.
+  # <http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=562544>
+  def uninstall
+    lazy_pip "uninstall", "-y", "-q", @resource[:name]
+  end
+
+  def update
+    install
+  end
+
+  # Execute a `pip` command.  If Puppet doesn't yet know how to do so,
+  # try to teach it and if even that fails, raise the error.
+  private
+  def lazy_pip(*args)
+    pip3 *args
+  rescue NoMethodError => e
+    self.class.commands :pip => pip3_cmd
+    pip *args
+  end
+
+  def pip3_cmd
+    ['/usr/bin/python3-pip', '/usr/bin/pip3', '/usr/bin/pip-3.2', '/usr/bin/pip-3.3'].each do |p|
+      return p if File.exist?(p)
+    end
+    raise Puppet::Error, "Unable to fine pip3 binary.";
+  end
+
+end
diff --git a/manifests/params.pp b/manifests/params.pp
index f3b7ae4..856047d 100644
--- a/manifests/params.pp
+++ b/manifests/params.pp
@@ -7,10 +7,14 @@ class pip::params {
     'RedHat': {
       $python_devel_package = 'python-devel'
       $python_pip_package   = 'python-pip'
+      $python3_devel_package = 'python3-devel'
+      $python3_pip_package   = 'python3-pip'
     }
     'Debian': {
-      $python_devel_package = 'python-all-dev'
-      $python_pip_package   = 'python-pip'
+      $python_devel_package  = 'python-all-dev'
+      $python_pip_package    = 'python-pip'
+      $python3_devel_package = 'python3-all-dev'
+      $python3_pip_package   = 'python3-pip'
     }
     default: {
       fail("Unsupported osfamily: ${::osfamily} The 'pip' module only supports osfamily Debian or RedHat.")
diff --git a/manifests/python3.pp b/manifests/python3.pp
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..38a2412
--- /dev/null
+++ b/manifests/python3.pp
@@ -0,0 +1,15 @@
+# Class: pip
+#
+class pip::python3 {
+  include pip::params
+
+  package { $::pip::params::python3_devel_package:
+    ensure => present,
+  }
+
+  package { $::pip::params::python3_pip_package:
+    ensure  => present,
+    require => Package[$::pip::params::python3_devel_package]
+  }
+
+}