diff --git a/plugins/python-build/bin/python-build b/plugins/python-build/bin/python-build
index 2e8bf1cf..2f1d8ebb 100755
--- a/plugins/python-build/bin/python-build
+++ b/plugins/python-build/bin/python-build
@@ -1474,6 +1474,12 @@ prefer_openssl11() {
   export PYTHON_BUILD_HOMEBREW_OPENSSL_FORMULA
 }
 
+prefer_openssl3() {
+  # Allow overriding the preference of OpenSSL version per definition basis (#1302, #1325, #1326)
+  PYTHON_BUILD_HOMEBREW_OPENSSL_FORMULA="${PYTHON_BUILD_HOMEBREW_OPENSSL_FORMULA:-openssl@3 openssl@1.1 openssl}"
+  export PYTHON_BUILD_HOMEBREW_OPENSSL_FORMULA
+}
+
 build_package_mac_readline() {
   # Install to a subdirectory since we don't want shims for bin/readline.
   READLINE_PREFIX_PATH="${PREFIX_PATH}/readline"
diff --git a/plugins/python-build/share/python-build/3.12-dev b/plugins/python-build/share/python-build/3.12-dev
index 8b9d23b2..7fbdcf5f 100644
--- a/plugins/python-build/share/python-build/3.12-dev
+++ b/plugins/python-build/share/python-build/3.12-dev
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-prefer_openssl11
+prefer_openssl3
 export PYTHON_BUILD_CONFIGURE_WITH_OPENSSL=1
 export PYTHON_BUILD_TCLTK_USE_PKGCONFIG=1
 export PYTHON_BUILD_CONFIGURE_WITH_DSYMUTIL=1
diff --git a/plugins/python-build/share/python-build/3.12.0rc2 b/plugins/python-build/share/python-build/3.12.0rc2
index 159e176e..1abccea1 100644
--- a/plugins/python-build/share/python-build/3.12.0rc2
+++ b/plugins/python-build/share/python-build/3.12.0rc2
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-prefer_openssl11
+prefer_openssl3
 export PYTHON_BUILD_CONFIGURE_WITH_OPENSSL=1
 install_package "openssl-3.1.1s" "https://www.openssl.org/source/openssl-3.1.1s.tar.gz#b3aa61334233b852b63ddb048df181177c2c659eb9d4376008118f9c08d07674" mac_openssl --if has_broken_mac_openssl
 install_package "readline-8.2" "https://ftpmirror.gnu.org/readline/readline-8.2.tar.gz#3feb7171f16a84ee82ca18a36d7b9be109a52c04f492a053331d7d1095007c35" mac_readline --if has_broken_mac_readline