diff --git a/lib/py/setup.py b/lib/py/setup.py
index d111bb1..e5e9996 100644
--- a/lib/py/setup.py
+++ b/lib/py/setup.py
@@ -26,8 +26,8 @@
                           )
 
 setup(name = 'Thrift',
-      version = '0.1',
-      description = 'Thrift Python Libraries',
+      version = '0.6.0-dev',
+      description = 'Python bindings for the Apache Thrift RPC system',
       author = ['Thrift Developers'],
       author_email = ['thrift-dev@incubator.apache.org'],
       url = 'http://incubator.apache.org/thrift/',