diff --git a/.gitmodules b/.gitmodules
index 5ba1764e..cc5cfece 100644
--- a/.gitmodules
+++ b/.gitmodules
@@ -1,3 +1,5 @@
 [submodule "kokkos"]
 	path = kokkos
 	url = https://github.com/kokkos/kokkos
+[submodule "perfstubs"]
+	branch = python-3.12
diff --git a/CMakeLists.txt b/CMakeLists.txt
index 3682df8e..55b0cc9f 100644
--- a/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -903,25 +903,50 @@ else()
             "Try manually check out https://github.com/cameron314/concurrentqueue.git to ${PROJECT_SOURCE_DIR}")
 endif()
 
-### Set up perfstubs stuff
-git_external(perfstubs
-    https://github.com/khuck/perfstubs.git
+### Set up rapidjson stuff - before perfstubs, it is a dependency there, too
+git_external(rapidjson
+    https://github.com/miloyip/rapidjson.git
     master
     VERBOSE)
 
-find_file(
-    PERFSTUBS_HEADER
-    NAMES perfstubs_api/tool.h
-    PATHS ${PROJECT_SOURCE_DIR}/perfstubs)
+find_path(
+    RAPIDJSON_INCLUDE_DIR
+    NAMES rapidjson
+    PATHS ${PROJECT_SOURCE_DIR}/rapidjson/include)
 
-if(PERFSTUBS_HEADER)
-    message(INFO " Found perfstubs at ${PROJECT_SOURCE_DIR}/perfstubs")
-    include_directories(${PROJECT_SOURCE_DIR}/perfstubs)
+if(RAPIDJSON_INCLUDE_DIR)
+    message(INFO " Found rapidjson at ${RAPIDJSON_INCLUDE_DIR}")
+    include_directories(${RAPIDJSON_INCLUDE_DIR})
 else()
-    message(FATAL_ERROR " perfstubs not found. This should have been checked out automatically. "
-            "Try manually check out https://github.com/khuck/perfstubs.git to ${PROJECT_SOURCE_DIR}")
+    message(FATAL_ERROR " rapidjson not found. This should have been checked out automatically. "
+        "Try manually check out https://github.com/miloyip/rapidjson.git to ${PROJECT_SOURCE_DIR}")
 endif()
 
+### Set up perfstubs stuff
+git_external(perfstubs
+    https://github.com/khuck/perfstubs.git
+    python-3.12
+    VERBOSE)
+
+if(APEX_WITH_PYTHON)
+    set(PERFSTUBS_WITH_PYTHON ON CACHE BOOL "Enable Python Support" FORCE)
+    add_subdirectory(perfstubs)
+    include_directories(${PROJECT_SOURCE_DIR}/perfstubs)
+else(APEX_WITH_PYTHON)
+    find_file(
+        PERFSTUBS_HEADER
+        NAMES perfstubs_api/tool.h
+        PATHS ${PROJECT_SOURCE_DIR}/perfstubs)
+
+    if(PERFSTUBS_HEADER)
+        message(INFO " Found perfstubs at ${PROJECT_SOURCE_DIR}/perfstubs")
+        include_directories(${PROJECT_SOURCE_DIR}/perfstubs)
+    else()
+        message(FATAL_ERROR " perfstubs not found. This should have been checked out automatically. "
+                "Try manually check out https://github.com/khuck/perfstubs.git to ${PROJECT_SOURCE_DIR}")
+    endif()
+endif(APEX_WITH_PYTHON)
+
 ### Set up taskStubs stuff
 git_external(taskStubs
     https://github.com/khuck/taskStubs.git
@@ -947,24 +972,6 @@ if(APEX_WITH_PLUGINS)
     add_definitions("-DAPEX_WITH_PLUGINS")
 endif()
 
-git_external(rapidjson
-    https://github.com/miloyip/rapidjson.git
-    master
-    VERBOSE)
-
-find_path(
-    RAPIDJSON_INCLUDE_DIR
-    NAMES rapidjson
-    PATHS ${PROJECT_SOURCE_DIR}/rapidjson/include)
-
-if(RAPIDJSON_INCLUDE_DIR)
-    message(INFO " Found rapidjson at ${RAPIDJSON_INCLUDE_DIR}")
-    include_directories(${RAPIDJSON_INCLUDE_DIR})
-else()
-    message(FATAL_ERROR " rapidjson not found. This should have been checked out automatically. "
-        "Try manually check out https://github.com/miloyip/rapidjson.git to ${PROJECT_SOURCE_DIR}")
-endif()
-
 ################################################################################
 # Standard Library configuration
 ################################################################################
diff --git a/cmake/Modules/APEX_DefaultOptions.cmake b/cmake/Modules/APEX_DefaultOptions.cmake
index 5c5e6207..1a6f0c5c 100644
--- a/cmake/Modules/APEX_DefaultOptions.cmake
+++ b/cmake/Modules/APEX_DefaultOptions.cmake
@@ -122,6 +122,7 @@ option (APEX_WITH_PAPI "Enable PAPI support" FALSE)
 option (APEX_WITH_PERFETTO "Enable native Perfetto trace support" FALSE)
 option (APEX_WITH_PHIPROF "Enable APEX PhiProf support" FALSE)
 option (APEX_WITH_PLUGINS "Enable APEX policy plugin support" TRUE)
+option (APEX_WITH_PYTHON "Enable APEX Python support through perfstubs module" FALSE)
 option (APEX_WITH_STARPU "Enable APEX StarPU support" FALSE)
 option (APEX_WITH_TCMALLOC "Enable TCMalloc heap management" FALSE)
 option (APEX_USE_PEDANTIC "Enable pedantic compiler flags" FALSE)
diff --git a/src/scripts/apex_exec b/src/scripts/apex_exec
index d624fcbd..91ab00e4 100755
--- a/src/scripts/apex_exec
+++ b/src/scripts/apex_exec
@@ -82,6 +82,8 @@ where APEX options are zero or more of:
     --apex:hip-details            enable per-kernel statistics where available (default: off)
     --apex:monitor-gpu            enable GPU monitoring services (CUDA NVML, ROCm SMI)
     --apex:level0                 enable OneAPI Level0 measurement (default: off)
+    --apex:python                 enable Python profiling support (requires configuration support)
+    --apex:python-filter <filename> enable Python profiling support of Python internals
     --apex:cpuinfo                enable sampling of /proc/cpuinfo (Linux only)
     --apex:meminfo                enable sampling of /proc/meminfo (Linux only)
     --apex:net                    enable sampling of /proc/net/dev (Linux only)
@@ -112,6 +114,8 @@ raja=no
 otf2=no
 gtrace=no
 pftrace=no
+python=no
+python_internals=no
 scatter=no
 taskgraph=no
 tasktree=no
@@ -191,6 +195,21 @@ while (( "$#" )); do
       raja=yes
       shift
       ;;
+    --apex:python)
+      python=yes
+      shift
+      ;;
+    --apex:python-filter)
+      python=yes
+      if [ -n "$2" ] && [ ${2:0:1} != "-" ]; then
+        filter_file=$2
+        export PERFSTUBS_PYTHON_FILTER_FILENAME=${filter_file}
+        shift 2
+      else
+        echo "Error: Argument for $1 is missing" >&2
+        usage
+      fi
+      ;;
     --apex:debug)
       debug=yes
       if [ "$debugger" == "" ] ; then
@@ -762,6 +781,15 @@ fi
 if [ ${raja} = yes ] ; then
     export RAJA_PLUGINS=${BASEDIR}/${LIBDIR}/${APEX_LIBRARY_NAME}${SHLIBX}
 fi
+if [ ${python} = yes ] ; then
+    export PYTHONPATH=${BASEDIR}/${LIBDIR}:${PYTHONPATH}
+    # kind of abusing this label, maybe rename it to "wrapper executable?"
+    if [ ${debug} = yes ] ; then
+        debugger="python3 -m pdb -m pstubs"
+    else
+        debugger="python3 -m pstubs"
+    fi
+fi
 if [ ${openacc} = yes ] ; then
     export ACC_PROFLIB=${BASEDIR}/${LIBDIR}/${APEX_LIBRARY_NAME}${SHLIBX}
 fi