diff --git a/base/src/com/google/idea/blaze/base/projectview/section/sections/EnablePythonCodegenSupport.java b/base/src/com/google/idea/blaze/base/projectview/section/sections/EnablePythonCodegenSupport.java
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..e1097e0f04a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/base/src/com/google/idea/blaze/base/projectview/section/sections/EnablePythonCodegenSupport.java
@@ -0,0 +1,32 @@
+/*
+ * Copyright 2024 The Bazel Authors. All rights reserved.
+ *
+ * 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.
+ */
+package com.google.idea.blaze.base.projectview.section.sections;
+
+import com.google.idea.blaze.base.projectview.section.ScalarSection;
+import com.google.idea.blaze.base.projectview.section.SectionKey;
+import com.google.idea.blaze.base.projectview.section.SectionParser;
+
+public class EnablePythonCodegenSupport {
+  public static final SectionKey<Boolean, ScalarSection<Boolean>> KEY =
+      SectionKey.of("enable_python_codegen_support");
+  public static final SectionParser PARSER = new BooleanSectionParser(
+          KEY,
+                  """
+                  If set to true, enables Python codegen support.
+                  More info <a href=https://github.com/bazelbuild/intellij/blob/master/docs/python/code-generators.md>here</a>
+                  """
+  );
+}
diff --git a/base/src/com/google/idea/blaze/base/projectview/section/sections/Sections.java b/base/src/com/google/idea/blaze/base/projectview/section/sections/Sections.java
index 08a62870be6..f2822a39127 100644
--- a/base/src/com/google/idea/blaze/base/projectview/section/sections/Sections.java
+++ b/base/src/com/google/idea/blaze/base/projectview/section/sections/Sections.java
@@ -40,6 +40,7 @@ public class Sections {
           SyncFlagsSection.PARSER,
           TestFlagsSection.PARSER,
           ImportTargetOutputSection.PARSER,
+          EnablePythonCodegenSupport.PARSER,
           ExcludeTargetSection.PARSER,
           ExcludedSourceSection.PARSER,
           RunConfigurationsSection.PARSER,
diff --git a/base/src/com/google/idea/blaze/base/sync/SyncProjectTargetsHelper.java b/base/src/com/google/idea/blaze/base/sync/SyncProjectTargetsHelper.java
index 311a8990569..82600d55291 100644
--- a/base/src/com/google/idea/blaze/base/sync/SyncProjectTargetsHelper.java
+++ b/base/src/com/google/idea/blaze/base/sync/SyncProjectTargetsHelper.java
@@ -29,6 +29,7 @@
 import com.google.idea.blaze.base.model.primitives.WorkspaceRoot;
 import com.google.idea.blaze.base.projectview.ProjectViewSet;
 import com.google.idea.blaze.base.projectview.section.sections.AutomaticallyDeriveTargetsSection;
+import com.google.idea.blaze.base.projectview.section.sections.EnablePythonCodegenSupport;
 import com.google.idea.blaze.base.projectview.section.sections.SyncManualTargetsSection;
 import com.google.idea.blaze.base.projectview.section.sections.TargetSection;
 import com.google.idea.blaze.base.scope.BlazeContext;
@@ -194,7 +195,7 @@ private static ImmutableList<TargetExpression> deriveTargetsFromDirectories(
           .filter(Objects::nonNull)
           .collect(Collectors.toSet());
 
-      if (!activeLanguageCodeGeneratorTags.isEmpty()) {
+      if (!activeLanguageCodeGeneratorTags.isEmpty() && projectViewSet.getScalarValue(EnablePythonCodegenSupport.KEY).orElse(false)) {
         retainedByCodeGen = TargetTagFilter.filterCodeGen(
             project,
             context,
diff --git a/base/tests/unittests/com/google/idea/blaze/base/projectview/ProjectViewSetTest.java b/base/tests/unittests/com/google/idea/blaze/base/projectview/ProjectViewSetTest.java
index 6b97d9cf191..35b35beca67 100644
--- a/base/tests/unittests/com/google/idea/blaze/base/projectview/ProjectViewSetTest.java
+++ b/base/tests/unittests/com/google/idea/blaze/base/projectview/ProjectViewSetTest.java
@@ -38,6 +38,7 @@
 import com.google.idea.blaze.base.projectview.section.sections.BuildFlagsSection;
 import com.google.idea.blaze.base.projectview.section.sections.DirectoryEntry;
 import com.google.idea.blaze.base.projectview.section.sections.DirectorySection;
+import com.google.idea.blaze.base.projectview.section.sections.EnablePythonCodegenSupport;
 import com.google.idea.blaze.base.projectview.section.sections.ExcludeTargetSection;
 import com.google.idea.blaze.base.projectview.section.sections.ExcludedSourceSection;
 import com.google.idea.blaze.base.projectview.section.sections.ImportSection;
@@ -122,6 +123,7 @@ public void testProjectViewSetSerializable() {
                             .set(new WorkspacePath("test")))
                     .add(ScalarSection.builder(UseExclusionPatternsSection.KEY).set(false))
                     .add(ScalarSection.builder(ViewProjectRootSection.KEY).set(false))
+                    .add(ScalarSection.builder(EnablePythonCodegenSupport.KEY).set(false))
                     .build())
             .build();
 
diff --git a/examples/python/simple_code_generator/tools/intellij/.managed.bazelproject b/examples/python/simple_code_generator/tools/intellij/.managed.bazelproject
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..cf1bfbb1ffd
--- /dev/null
+++ b/examples/python/simple_code_generator/tools/intellij/.managed.bazelproject
@@ -0,0 +1,9 @@
+directories:
+  .
+
+derive_targets_from_directories: true
+
+additional_languages:
+  python
+
+enable_python_codegen_support: true