diff -r c4392e526e85 distutils2/util.py
--- a/distutils2/util.py	Tue Oct 11 02:30:39 2011 +0200
+++ b/distutils2/util.py	Mon Oct 17 18:50:38 2011 -0700
@@ -1035,6 +1035,7 @@
 
 _SETUP_TMPL = """\
 # This script was automatically generated by distutils2
+import codecs
 import os
 from distutils.core import setup
 from ConfigParser import RawConfigParser
@@ -1055,7 +1056,7 @@
 
     fp = codecs.open("setup.py", "w", encoding='utf-8')
     try:
-        fp.write(_SETUP_TMPL % {'func': getsource(cfg_to_args)})
+        fp.write(_SETUP_TMPL % {'func': getsource(split_multiline)+"\n"+getsource(cfg_to_args)})
     finally:
         fp.close()