diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index ac5fca5..e2cf2df 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -1,3 +1,5 @@
 dumb-init
 dist/
 *.deb
+*.egg-info
+.tox
diff --git a/.pre-commit-config.yaml b/.pre-commit-config.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..e392923
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.pre-commit-config.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,26 @@
+-   repo: https://github.com/pre-commit/pre-commit-hooks.git
+    sha: 003e43251aea1da33f2072f2365ec8b9ceaae070
+    hooks:
+    -   id: autopep8-wrapper
+    -   id: check-added-large-files
+    -   id: check-docstring-first
+    -   id: check-json
+    -   id: check-merge-conflict
+    -   id: check-xml
+    -   id: check-yaml
+    -   id: debug-statements
+    -   id: detect-private-key
+    -   id: double-quote-string-fixer
+    -   id: end-of-file-fixer
+    -   id: flake8
+    -   id: name-tests-test
+    -   id: requirements-txt-fixer
+    -   id: trailing-whitespace
+-   repo: https://github.com/asottile/reorder_python_imports.git
+    sha: 3d86483455ab5bd06cc1069fdd5ac57be5463f10
+    hooks:
+    -   id: reorder-python-imports
+-   repo: https://github.com/Lucas-C/pre-commit-hooks.git
+    sha: 181a63c511691da58116fa19a7241956018660bc
+    hooks:
+    -   id: remove-tabs
diff --git a/Dockerfile b/Dockerfile
index 9fd9a2c..5f138b0 100644
--- a/Dockerfile
+++ b/Dockerfile
@@ -2,9 +2,9 @@ FROM debian:jessie
 
 MAINTAINER Chris Kuehl <ckuehl@yelp.com>
 RUN DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive apt-get update && \
-	apt-get install -y --no-install-recommends \
-		build-essential devscripts equivs && \
-	apt-get clean
+    apt-get install -y --no-install-recommends \
+        build-essential devscripts equivs && \
+    apt-get clean
 WORKDIR /mnt
 
 ENTRYPOINT mk-build-deps -i && make builddeb
diff --git a/MANIFEST.in b/MANIFEST.in
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..30a7054
--- /dev/null
+++ b/MANIFEST.in
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+include dumb-init.c
diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index 2a41cbf..0bf8703 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -1,13 +1,31 @@
-DOCKER_TEST := sh -c 'dpkg -i /mnt/dist/*.deb && cd /mnt && ./test'
+DOCKER_RUN_TEST := docker run -v $(PWD):/mnt:ro
+DOCKER_DEB_TEST := sh -euxc ' \
+	apt-get update \
+	&& apt-get install -y --no-install-recommends procps \
+	&& dpkg -i /mnt/dist/*.deb \
+	&& cd /mnt \
+	&& ./test \
+'
+DOCKER_PYTHON_TEST := sh -uexc ' \
+	apt-get update \
+	&& apt-get install -y --no-install-recommends python-pip build-essential procps \
+	&& pip install -vv /mnt \
+	&& cd /mnt \
+	&& ./test \
+'
 
 .PHONY: build
 build:
 	$(CC) -static -Wall -Werror -o dumb-init dumb-init.c
 
 .PHONY: clean
-clean:
+clean: clean-tox
 	rm -rf dumb-init dist/ *.deb
 
+.PHONY: clean-tox
+clean-tox:
+	rm -rf .tox
+
 .PHONY: builddeb
 builddeb:
 	debuild -us -uc -b
@@ -22,24 +40,31 @@ builddeb-docker: docker-image
 docker-image:
 	docker build -t dumb-init-build .
 
+.PHONY: test
+test:
+	tox
+
+.PHONY: install-hooks
+install-hooks:
+	tox -e pre-commit -- install -f --install-hooks
+
 .PHONY: itest itest_lucid itest_precise itest_trusty itest_wheezy itest_jessie itest_stretch
 itest: itest_lucid itest_precise itest_trusty itest_wheezy itest_jessie itest_stretch
 
-itest_lucid: builddeb-docker
-	docker run -v $(PWD):/mnt:ro ubuntu:lucid \
-		sh -ec "apt-get -y install timeout; $(DOCKER_TEST)"
+itest_lucid: _itest-ubuntu-lucid
+itest_precise: _itest-ubuntu-precise
+itest_trusty: _itest-ubuntu-trusty
+itest_wheezy: _itest-debian-wheezy
+itest_jessie: _itest-debian-jessie
+itest_stretch: _itest-debian-stretch
 
-itest_precise: builddeb-docker
-	docker run -v $(PWD):/mnt:ro ubuntu:precise $(DOCKER_TEST)
+_itest-%: _itest_deb-% _itest_python-%
+	@true
 
-itest_trusty: builddeb-docker
-	docker run -v $(PWD):/mnt:ro ubuntu:trusty $(DOCKER_TEST)
+_itest_python-%:
+	$(eval DOCKER_IMG := $(shell echo $@ | cut -d- -f2 | sed 's/-/:/'))
+	$(DOCKER_RUN_TEST) $(DOCKER_IMG) $(DOCKER_PYTHON_TEST)
 
-itest_wheezy: builddeb-docker
-	docker run -v $(PWD):/mnt:ro debian:wheezy $(DOCKER_TEST)
-
-itest_jessie: builddeb-docker
-	docker run -v $(PWD):/mnt:ro debian:jessie $(DOCKER_TEST)
-
-itest_stretch: builddeb-docker
-	docker run -v $(PWD):/mnt:ro debian:stretch $(DOCKER_TEST)
+_itest_deb-%:
+	$(eval DOCKER_IMG := $(shell echo $@ | cut -d- -f2 | sed 's/-/:/'))
+	$(DOCKER_RUN_TEST) $(DOCKER_IMG) $(DOCKER_DEB_TEST)
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 35c9711..5cb5b25 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -60,6 +60,14 @@ If you don't have an internal apt server, you can use `dpkg -i` to install the
 (mounting a directory or `wget`-ing it are some options).
 
 
+### Option 3: Installing from PyPI
+
+dumb-init can be installed [from PyPI](https://pypi.python.org/pypi/dumb-init)
+using pip. Since dumb-init is written in C, you'll want to first install gcc
+(on Debian/Ubuntu, `apt-get install gcc` is sufficient), then just `pip install
+dumb-init`.
+
+
 ## Usage
 
 Once installed inside your Docker container, simply prefix your commands with
diff --git a/debian/control b/debian/control
index 78b9cf5..3f9a3cc 100644
--- a/debian/control
+++ b/debian/control
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ Source: dumb-init
 Section: utils
 Priority: extra
 Maintainer: Chris Kuehl <ckuehl@yelp.com>
-Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 7), gcc, fakeroot
+Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 7), gcc, fakeroot, procps
 Standards-Version: 3.9.6
 
 Package: dumb-init
diff --git a/debian/rules b/debian/rules
index 483d681..f3af0c2 100755
--- a/debian/rules
+++ b/debian/rules
@@ -4,3 +4,6 @@
 
 override_dh_builddeb:
 	dh_builddeb -- -Zgzip
+
+override_dh_auto_test:
+	./test ./dumb-init
diff --git a/dumb-init.c b/dumb-init.c
index 97b7410..48bdee6 100644
--- a/dumb-init.c
+++ b/dumb-init.c
@@ -20,87 +20,87 @@ pid_t child = -1;
 char debug = 0;
 
 void signal_handler(int signum) {
-	if (debug)
-		fprintf(stderr, "Received signal %d.\n", signum);
+    if (debug)
+        fprintf(stderr, "Received signal %d.\n", signum);
 
-	if (child > 0) {
-		kill(child, signum);
+    if (child > 0) {
+        kill(child, signum);
 
-		if (debug)
-			fprintf(stderr, "Forwarded signal to child.\n");
-	}
+        if (debug)
+            fprintf(stderr, "Forwarded signal to child.\n");
+    }
 }
 
 void print_help(char *argv[]) {
-	fprintf(stderr,
-		"Usage: %s COMMAND [[ARG] ...]\n"
-		"\n"
-		"Docker runs your processes as PID1. The kernel doesn't apply default signal\n"
-		"handling to PID1 processes, so if your process doesn't register a custom\n"
-		"signal handler, signals like TERM will just bounce off your process.\n"
-		"\n"
-		"This can result in cases where sending signals to a `docker run` process\n"
-		"results in the run process exiting, but the container continuing in the\n"
-		"background.\n"
-		"\n"
-		"A workaround is to wrap your script in this proxy, which runs as PID1. Your\n"
-		"process then runs as some other PID, and the kernel won't treat the signals\n"
-		"that are proxied to them specially.\n"
-		"\n"
-		"The proxy dies when your process dies, so it must not double-fork or do other\n"
-		"weird things (this is basically a requirement for doing things sanely in\n"
-		"Docker anyway).\n",
-		argv[0]
-	);
+    fprintf(stderr,
+        "Usage: %s COMMAND [[ARG] ...]\n"
+        "\n"
+        "Docker runs your processes as PID1. The kernel doesn't apply default signal\n"
+        "handling to PID1 processes, so if your process doesn't register a custom\n"
+        "signal handler, signals like TERM will just bounce off your process.\n"
+        "\n"
+        "This can result in cases where sending signals to a `docker run` process\n"
+        "results in the run process exiting, but the container continuing in the\n"
+        "background.\n"
+        "\n"
+        "A workaround is to wrap your script in this proxy, which runs as PID1. Your\n"
+        "process then runs as some other PID, and the kernel won't treat the signals\n"
+        "that are proxied to them specially.\n"
+        "\n"
+        "The proxy dies when your process dies, so it must not double-fork or do other\n"
+        "weird things (this is basically a requirement for doing things sanely in\n"
+        "Docker anyway).\n",
+        argv[0]
+    );
 }
 
 int main(int argc, char *argv[]) {
-	int signum, exit_status, status = 0;
-	char *debug_env;
+    int signum, exit_status, status = 0;
+    char *debug_env;
 
-	if (argc < 2) {
-		print_help(argv);
-		return 1;
-	}
+    if (argc < 2) {
+        print_help(argv);
+        return 1;
+    }
 
-	debug_env = getenv("DUMB_INIT_DEBUG");
-	if (debug_env && strcmp(debug_env, "1") == 0)
-		debug = 1;
+    debug_env = getenv("DUMB_INIT_DEBUG");
+    if (debug_env && strcmp(debug_env, "1") == 0)
+        debug = 1;
 
 
-	/* register signal handlers */
-	for (signum = 1; signum < 32; signum++) {
-		if (signum == SIGKILL || signum == SIGSTOP || signum == SIGCHLD)
-			continue;
+    /* register signal handlers */
+    for (signum = 1; signum < 32; signum++) {
+        if (signum == SIGKILL || signum == SIGSTOP || signum == SIGCHLD)
+            continue;
 
-		if (signal(signum, signal_handler) == SIG_ERR) {
-			fprintf(stderr, "Error: Couldn't register signal handler for signal `%d`. Exiting.\n", signum);
-			return 1;
-		}
-	}
+        if (signal(signum, signal_handler) == SIG_ERR) {
+            fprintf(stderr, "Error: Couldn't register signal handler for signal `%d`. Exiting.\n", signum);
+            return 1;
+        }
+    }
 
-	/* launch our process */
-	child = fork();
+    /* launch our process */
+    child = fork();
 
-	if (child < 0) {
-		fprintf(stderr, "Unable to fork. Exiting.\n");
-		return 1;
-	}
+    if (child < 0) {
+        fprintf(stderr, "Unable to fork. Exiting.\n");
+        return 1;
+    }
 
-	if (child == 0) {
-		execvp(argv[1], &argv[1]);
-	} else {
-		if (debug)
-			fprintf(stderr, "Child spawned with PID %d.\n", child);
+    if (child == 0) {
+        execvp(argv[1], &argv[1]);
+    } else {
+        if (debug)
+            fprintf(stderr, "Child spawned with PID %d.\n", child);
 
-		waitpid(child, &status, 0);
-		exit_status = WEXITSTATUS(status);
+        waitpid(child, &status, 0);
+        exit_status = WEXITSTATUS(status);
 
-		if (debug)
-			fprintf(stderr, "Child exited with status %d, goodbye.\n", exit_status);
+        if (debug)
+            fprintf(stderr, "Child exited with status %d, goodbye.\n", exit_status);
 
-		return exit_status;
-	}
+        return exit_status;
+    }
 
-	return 0;
+    return 0;
 }
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..fdd32dc
--- /dev/null
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -0,0 +1,107 @@
+import os.path
+from distutils.command.build import build as orig_build
+from distutils.core import Command
+
+from setuptools import Distribution
+from setuptools import Extension
+from setuptools import setup
+from setuptools.command.install import install as orig_install
+
+
+class ExeDistribution(Distribution):
+    c_executables = ()
+
+
+class build(orig_build):
+    sub_commands = orig_build.sub_commands + [
+        ('build_cexe', None),
+    ]
+
+
+class install(orig_install):
+    sub_commands = orig_install.sub_commands + [
+        ('install_cexe', None),
+    ]
+
+
+class install_cexe(Command):
+    description = 'install C executables'
+    outfiles = ()
+
+    def initialize_options(self):
+        self.build_dir = self.install_dir = None
+
+    def finalize_options(self):
+        # this initializes attributes based on other commands' attributes
+        self.set_undefined_options('build', ('build_scripts', 'build_dir'))
+        self.set_undefined_options(
+            'install', ('install_scripts', 'install_dir'))
+
+    def run(self):
+        self.outfiles = self.copy_tree(self.build_dir, self.install_dir)
+
+    def get_outputs(self):
+        return self.outfiles
+
+
+class build_cexe(Command):
+    description = 'build C executables'
+
+    def initialize_options(self):
+        self.build_scripts = None
+        self.build_temp = None
+
+    def finalize_options(self):
+        self.set_undefined_options(
+            'build',
+            ('build_scripts', 'build_scripts'),
+            ('build_temp', 'build_temp'),
+        )
+
+    def run(self):
+        # stolen and simplified from distutils.command.build_ext
+        from distutils.ccompiler import new_compiler
+
+        compiler = new_compiler(verbose=True)
+
+        for exe in self.distribution.c_executables:
+            objects = compiler.compile(
+                exe.sources,
+                output_dir=self.build_temp,
+            )
+            compiler.link_executable(
+                objects,
+                exe.name,
+                output_dir=self.build_scripts,
+                extra_postargs=exe.extra_link_args,
+            )
+
+    def get_outputs(self):
+        return [
+            os.path.join(self.build_scripts, exe.name)
+            for exe in self.distribution.c_executables
+        ]
+
+
+setup(
+    name='dumb-init',
+    description='Simple wrapper script which proxies signals to a child',
+    version='0.0.2',
+    author='Yelp',
+    platforms='linux',
+
+    c_executables=[
+        Extension(
+            'dumb-init',
+            ['dumb-init.c'],
+            extra_link_args=['-static'],
+        ),
+    ],
+    cmdclass={
+        'build': build,
+        'build_cexe': build_cexe,
+        'install': install,
+        'install_cexe': install_cexe,
+    },
+    distclass=ExeDistribution,
+)
diff --git a/test b/test
index f599877..421b346 100755
--- a/test
+++ b/test
@@ -1,8 +1,19 @@
-#!/bin/sh -eux
+#!/bin/bash -eux
+if [ "$#" -eq 1 ]; then
+    dumb_init_bin=$(readlink -f "$1")
+else
+    dumb_init_bin=$(which dumb-init) || {
+        echo "Couldn't find dumb-init on your path, exiting."
+        exit 1
+    }
+fi
+
+echo "Running with dumb-init at '$dumb_init_bin'"
+
 run_tests() {
-	./test-proxies-signals
-	./test-exit-status
-	./test-help-message
+    ./test-proxies-signals "$dumb_init_bin"
+    ./test-exit-status "$dumb_init_bin"
+    ./test-help-message "$dumb_init_bin"
 }
 
 cd tests
diff --git a/tests/lib/print-signals b/tests/lib/print-signals
index db024ba..cc4e6ce 100755
--- a/tests/lib/print-signals
+++ b/tests/lib/print-signals
@@ -1,14 +1,15 @@
-#!/bin/sh -eu
+#!/bin/bash -eux
 # Print received signals into a file, one per line
 file="$1"
 
 . ./lib/testlib.sh
 
 for i in $(catchable_signals); do
-	trap "echo $i > \"$file\"" "$i"
+    trap "echo $i > \"$file\"" "$i"
 done
 
 echo 'ready' > "$file"
 
-# loop forever
+echo 'loop forever...'
+set +x
 while :; do true; done
diff --git a/tests/lib/testlib.sh b/tests/lib/testlib.sh
index f20d67a..bdff385 100644
--- a/tests/lib/testlib.sh
+++ b/tests/lib/testlib.sh
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
 catchable_signals() {
-	# We can't handle the signals SIGKILL=9, SIGCHLD=17, SIGSTOP=19
-	seq 1 31 | grep -vE '^(9|17|19)$'
+    # We can't handle the signals SIGKILL=9, SIGCHLD=17, SIGSTOP=19
+    seq 1 31 | grep -vE '^(9|17|19)$'
 }
diff --git a/tests/test-exit-status b/tests/test-exit-status
index 364515f..597b412 100755
--- a/tests/test-exit-status
+++ b/tests/test-exit-status
@@ -1,10 +1,12 @@
-#!/bin/sh -u
+#!/bin/bash -eux
+dumb_init="$1"
+
 # dumb-init should exit with the same exit status as the process it launches.
 for i in $(seq 0 255); do
-	status=$(dumb-init sh -c "exit $i"; echo $?)
+    status=$($dumb_init sh -c "exit $i"; echo $?)
 
-	if [ "$status" -ne "$i" ]; then
-		echo "Error: Expected exit status $i, got $status."
-		exit 1
-	fi
+    if [ "$status" -ne "$i" ]; then
+        echo "Error: Expected exit status $i, got $status."
+        exit 1
+    fi
 done
diff --git a/tests/test-help-message b/tests/test-help-message
index f08673d..b1c45a1 100755
--- a/tests/test-help-message
+++ b/tests/test-help-message
@@ -1,18 +1,20 @@
-#!/bin/sh -u
+#!/bin/bash -eux
 # dumb-init should say something useful when called with no arguments, and exit
 # nonzero.
 
-status=$(dumb-init > /dev/null 2>&1; echo $?)
+dumb_init="$1"
+
+status=$($dumb_init > /dev/null 2>&1; echo $?)
 
 if [ "$status" -ne 0 ]; then
-	msg=$(dumb-init 2>&1 || true)
-	msg_len=${#msg}
+    msg=$($dumb_init 2>&1 || true)
+    msg_len=${#msg}
 
-	if [ "$msg_len" -le 50 ]; then
-		echo "Error: Expected dumb-init with no arguments to print a useful message, but it was only ${msg_len} chars long."
-		exit 1
-	fi
+    if [ "$msg_len" -le 50 ]; then
+        echo "Error: Expected dumb-init with no arguments to print a useful message, but it was only ${msg_len} chars long."
+        exit 1
+    fi
 else
-	echo "Error: Expected dumb-init with no arguments to return nonzero, but it returned ${status}."
-	exit 1
+    echo "Error: Expected dumb-init with no arguments to return nonzero, but it returned ${status}."
+    exit 1
 fi
diff --git a/tests/test-proxies-signals b/tests/test-proxies-signals
index 134af97..32bc10e 100755
--- a/tests/test-proxies-signals
+++ b/tests/test-proxies-signals
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
-#!/bin/sh -eum
+#!/bin/bash -euxm
 # dumb-init should proxy all possible signals to the child process.
+dumb_init="$1"
 
 # Try sending all signals via dumb-init to our `print-signals` script, ensure
 # they were all received.
@@ -11,31 +12,35 @@ fifo=$(mktemp -u)
 mkfifo -m 600 "$fifo"
 read_cmd="timeout 1 head -n1 $fifo"
 
-dumb-init ./lib/print-signals "$fifo" &
+$dumb_init ./lib/print-signals "$fifo" &
 pid="$!"
 
 # Wait for `print-signals` to indicate it's ready.
 $read_cmd > /dev/null
 
 for expected in $(catchable_signals); do
-	kill -s "$expected" "$pid"
-	echo -n "Sent signal ${expected}... "
-	received=$($read_cmd) || {
-		echo
-		echo "Error: Didn't receive signal within 1 second."
-		exit 1
-	}
+    kill -s "$expected" "$pid"
+    echo -n "Sent signal ${expected}... "
+    received=$($read_cmd) || {
+        echo
+        echo "Error: Didn't receive signal within 1 second."
+        exit 1
+    }
 
-	echo "received signal ${received}."
+    echo "received signal ${received}."
 
-	if [ "$expected" -ne "$received" ]; then
-		echo "Error: Received signal $received, but expected signal $expected."
-		exit 1
-	fi
+    if [ "$expected" -ne "$received" ]; then
+        echo "Error: Received signal $received, but expected signal $expected."
+        exit 1
+    fi
 done
 
 # Turn off job monitoring so we don't get a spurious "[1] + Killed" printed
 set +m
 
-kill -9 "$pid"
+# $pid is the PID of the dumb-init process. Since print-signals ignores all
+# signals, we need to `kill -9` it. If we just `kill -9` the dumb-init process,
+# `print-signals` will still be running. So we instead kill children of the
+# dumb-init process.
+pkill -9 -P "$pid"
 rm "$fifo"
diff --git a/tox.ini b/tox.ini
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..63d6312
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tox.ini
@@ -0,0 +1,11 @@
+[tox]
+envlist = py27,py34
+
+[testenv]
+deps = pre-commit>=0.5.0
+commands =
+    ./test
+    pre-commit run --all-files
+
+[testenv:pre-commit]
+commands = pre-commit {posargs}