Installing the Python bindings is effectively achieved by compiling and installing GPGME itself.

Once SWIG is installed with Python and all the dependencies for GPGME are installed you only need to confirm that the version(s) of Python you want the bindings installed for are in your $PATH.

By default GPGME will attempt to install the bindings for the most recent or highest version number of Python 2 and Python 3 it detects in $PATH. It specifically checks for the python and python3 executables first and then checks for specific version numbers.

For Python 2 it checks for these executables in this order: python, python2 and python2.7.

For Python 3 it checks for these executables in this order: python3, python3.6, python3.5 and python3.4.