diff --git a/.hgignore b/.hgignore
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..944b63d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.hgignore
@@ -0,0 +1,12 @@
+syntax: glob
+
+MANIFEST
+build/
+dist/
+libleipzig.egg-info/
+nose-*.egg/
+suds-*.egg/
+manual.html
+.test/
+pip-log.txt
+*.pyc
diff --git a/README.rst b/README.rst
index 67065c2..f09b1f5 100644
--- a/README.rst
+++ b/README.rst
@@ -42,15 +42,24 @@ Baseform(*vectors, **options)
 
 .. **
 
+In Python 3, you omit the unicode prefixes. Python 3 is recommended for better support of extended Latin and other alphabets.
+
 Dependencies
 ------------
+- Python 2:
+    * Python 2.5 or later releases
+    * Setuptools_
+    * `suds 0.3.9`_ or later
 
-- Python 2.5 or later 2.x releases
-- Setuptools_
-- suds_ 0.3.9 or later
+- Python 3:
+    * Python 3.0 or later
+    * Distribute_
+    * `suds 0.4.2`_ or later
 
 .. _Setuptools: http://packages.python.org/distribute/
-.. _suds: https://fedorahosted.org/suds/#Resources
+.. _suds 0.3.9: https://fedorahosted.org/suds/#Resources
+.. _Distribute: http://packages.python.org/distribute/
+.. _suds 0.4.2: https://bitbucket.org/palday/suds
 
 Service calls
 -------------
@@ -161,6 +170,11 @@ program will terminate with exit code 1.  If the remote server reported failure
 
 Changelog
 ---------
+1.4 
+  * Added support for Python 3.
+  * Now requires suds 0.4.2 or later for Python 3.
+  * Moved to distribute (Python 3 capable fork of setuptools).
+  * Updated various classifiers and tags for distribute.
 
 1.3.1
   * Added service listing to ``wortschatz`` script.
diff --git a/libleipzig/__init__.py b/libleipzig/__init__.py
index 49b2245..6498ea0 100644
--- a/libleipzig/__init__.py
+++ b/libleipzig/__init__.py
@@ -4,4 +4,4 @@
 from libleipzig.transport import services
 from suds import WebFault
 
-__all__ = services.keys() + ['WebFault']
+__all__ = list(services.keys()) + ['WebFault']
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index c8e3cdf..08a15b8 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -1,29 +1,50 @@
 # Copyright (C) 2009, 2010 Robert Lehmann
+# Python 3 support via 2to3 added by Phillip Alday
 
 from setuptools import setup
 import os.path
 
 setup(name='libleipzig',
-      version='1.3',
-      description="wortschatz.uni-leipzig.de binding",
+      version='1.4',
+      description='wortschatz.uni-leipzig.de binding',
       long_description=open(os.path.join(os.path.dirname(__file__),
-          "README.rst")).read(),
-      url="http://github.com/lehmannro/libleipzig-python/",
+          'README.rst')).read(),
+      url='http://github.com/palday/libleipzig-python/',
+      setup_requires=['distribute'],
       install_requires = ['suds'],
       tests_require = ['nose'],
-      test_suite = "nose.collector",
-      author="Robert Lehmann",
-      author_email="libleipzig@robertlehmann.de",
-      license="GPLv3",
+      test_suite = 'nose.collector',
+      author='Robert Lehmann',
+      author_email='libleipzig@robertlehmann.de',
+      maintainer='Phillip Alday',
+      maintainer_email='phillip.alday@staff.uni-marburg.de',
+      license='GPLv3',
       packages=['libleipzig', 'libleipzig.test'],
-      package_dir={'libleipzig.test': "tests"},
-      package_data={'libleipzig': ["README.rst", "manual.html"]},
+      package_dir={'libleipzig.test': 'tests'},
+      package_data={'libleipzig': ['README.rst', 'manual.html']},
       entry_points={'console_scripts': ['wortschatz = libleipzig.main:main']},
       zip_safe=True,
+      use_2to3 = True,
       classifiers=[
+          'Development Status :: 5 - Production/Stable',
           'Environment :: Web Environment',
           'License :: OSI Approved :: GNU General Public License (GPL)',
           'Natural Language :: German',
           'Topic :: Text Processing :: Linguistic',
+          'Operating System :: OS Independent',
+          'Programming Language :: Python',
+          'Programming Language :: Python :: 2',
+          'Programming Language :: Python :: 2.4',
+          'Programming Language :: Python :: 2.5',
+          'Programming Language :: Python :: 2.6',
+          'Programming Language :: Python :: 2.7',
+          'Programming Language :: Python :: 3',
+          'Programming Language :: Python :: 3.0',
+          'Programming Language :: Python :: 3.1',
+          'Programming Language :: Python :: 3.2',
         ],
+      
+       # PEP-314 states that if possible license & plaform should be specified
+       # using 'classifiers'.
+       platforms=['(specified using classifiers)'],
 )