I apologize for posting out of my thread, but I tried to "reply" twice to my original thread, and my message didn't seem to appear anywhere. Maybe it's just delayed... Anyway, here goes: All: This may be a duplicate post - I can't see the post I just submitted, so I'm trying again. Thanks for the suggestions. I can't use 2.6 because it isn't installed on the systems where my script will be running. I'm attempting to use the 'eggsecutable' suggestion. How do I get command line parameters passed into my entry point main() function? Code is appended below. setup.py: from setuptools import setup, find_packages setup(name='testme', version='1.0.0', py_modules=['testme'], description = 'foo', author = 'Somebody', author_email = 'somebody@foo.com', url = 'www.foo.com', entry_points = { 'setuptools.installation': ['eggsecutable = testme:main',]} ) testme.py: #!/usr/bin/env python import sys def main(input): print 'Command line arguments are ' % input if __name__ == '__main__': main(sys.argv)