try to use setuptools

1 files changed, 5 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 71c7ec3..d2d56a8 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -7,11 +7,15 @@ import re
 from distutils2 import __version__ as VERSION
 from distutils2.util import find_packages
 from distutils import log
-from distutils.core import setup, Extension
 from distutils.ccompiler import new_compiler
 from distutils.command.sdist import sdist
 from distutils.command.install import install
 
+try:
+    from setuptools import setup, Extension
+except ImportError:
+    from distutils.core import setup, Extension
+
 f = open('README.txt')
 try:
     README = f.read()