diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 0fe2c40..a429c83 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -1,2 +1,4 @@
 *.pyc
 build/
+.idea/
+cpp2python.egg-info/
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 1006c1b..a1eb00d 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -31,7 +31,13 @@ astyle --style=ansi your.cpp source.cpp files.cpp
     cpp2python.py -v|--version|-h|--help  Display the help message
 
 After the processing new file is created.
-File name is {old file name with suffix}.py. i.e. main.cpp.py
+File name is `{old file name with suffix}.py`. i.e. `main.cpp.py`
+
+### Installation
+(Optional, the script can be used from the source tree)
+
+    python3 setup.py install
+
 
 ### Author
 Andrei Kopats <hlamer@tut.by>
diff --git a/cpp2python.py b/cpp2python.py
index e412d4e..c98e98c 100755
--- a/cpp2python.py
+++ b/cpp2python.py
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-#!/usr/bin/env python
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
 
 help = """The script helps to convert C/C++ sources to C/C++ -like Python sources.
 
@@ -285,9 +285,9 @@ def process_file(in_filename, out_filename):
     """
     generator - outputs processed file
     """
-    with open(in_filename, 'r') as file:
+    with open(in_filename, 'r', encoding='utf-8') as file:
         lines = file.readlines()  # probably would die on sources more than 100 000 lines :D
-    with open(out_filename, 'w+') as file:
+    with open(out_filename, 'w+', encoding='utf-8') as file:
         for line in lines:
             file.write(process_line(line))
 
@@ -297,11 +297,11 @@ def main():
        '-h' in sys.argv or \
        '--version' in sys.argv or \
        '-v' in sys.argv:
-        print help
+        print(help)
         sys.exit(0)
     if len (sys.argv) != 2:
-        print >> sys.stderr, 'Invalid parameters count. Must be 1'
-        print help
+        print('Invalid parameters count. Must be 1', file=sys.stderr)
+        print(help)
         sys.exit(-1)
     if os.path.isdir(sys.argv[1]):
         for root, dirs, files in os.walk(sys.argv[1]):
@@ -313,7 +313,7 @@ def main():
     elif os.path.isfile(sys.argv[1]):
         process_file(sys.argv[1], sys.argv[1] + '.py')
     else:
-        print >> sys.stderr, 'Not a file or directory', sys.argv[1]
+        print('Not a file or directory', sys.argv[1], file=sys.stderr)
         sys.exit(-1)
 
 if __name__ == '__main__':
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 979a5af..42bb132 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-from distutils.core import setup
+from setuptools import setup
 import cpp2python
 
 setup(