diff --git a/bin/colout b/bin/colout
deleted file mode 100644
index 7702d17..0000000
--- a/bin/colout
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,11 +0,0 @@
-#!/bin/bash
-# Copyright (c) 2013 Martin Ueding <dev@martin-ueding.de>
-
-# Small launcher script for the main module.
-
-# Licence: GPL 3
-
-set -e
-set -u
-
-python3 -m colout.colout "$@"
diff --git a/colout/colout.py b/colout/colout.py
index 29ca071..052d77e 100755
--- a/colout/colout.py
+++ b/colout/colout.py
@@ -927,8 +927,8 @@ def write_all( as_all, stream_in, stream_out, function, *args ):
         map_write( stream_in, stream_out, function, *args )
 
 
-if __name__ == "__main__":
-
+def main():
+    global context
     error_codes = {"UnknownColor":1, "DuplicatedPalette":2, "MixedModes":3}
 
     usage = "A regular expression based formatter that color up an arbitrary text stream."
@@ -1108,3 +1108,6 @@ if __name__ == "__main__":
                     + " Check the following 'color:mode' pairs: %s." % e )
         sys.exit( error_codes["MixedModes"] )
 
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    main()
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 890b887..d844893 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -36,6 +36,9 @@ setup(
     use_scm_version=True,
     classifiers=classifiers,
     description='Color Up Arbitrary Command Output.',
+    entry_points={
+        'console_scripts': ['colout=colout.colout:main'],
+    },
     long_description=open('README.md').read(),
     author='nojhan',
     author_email='nojhan@nojhan.net',
@@ -43,7 +46,6 @@ setup(
     packages=packages,
     package_data={'': ['LICENSE', 'README.md']},
     package_dir={'colout': 'colout'},
-    scripts=['bin/colout'],
     setup_requires=setup_requires,
     include_package_data=True,
     install_requires=requires,