diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 173399a0..bed7013b 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -11,6 +11,7 @@ What's new in psycopg 2.6.2
 - Raise `!NotSupportedError` on unhandled server response status
   (:ticket:`#352`).
 - Fixed `!PersistentConnectionPool` on Python 3 (:ticket:`#348`).
+- Added support for setuptools/wheel (:ticket:`#370`).
 - Fixed `!errorcodes.lookup` initialization thread-safety (:ticket:`#382`).
 
 
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 51c720a9..f83e8e39 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -57,7 +57,10 @@ import os
 import sys
 import re
 import subprocess
-from distutils.core import setup, Extension
+try:
+    from setuptools import setup, Extension
+except ImportError:
+    from distutils.core import setup, Extension
 from distutils.command.build_ext import build_ext
 from distutils.sysconfig import get_python_inc
 from distutils.ccompiler import get_default_compiler