Example Nikola script generated by Buildout 2.1.0. Note that the __future__ import is stranded in the middle of the file.

gistfile1.py

#!/usr/bin/python


import sys
sys.path[0:0] = [
  '/Users/kevin/src/nblog/eggs/Nikola-5.4.4-py2.7.egg',
  '/Users/kevin/src/nblog/eggs/Markdown-2.3.1-py2.7.egg',
  '/Users/kevin/src/nblog/eggs/configparser-3.3.0r2-py2.7.egg',
  '/Users/kevin/src/nblog/eggs/pytz-2013b-py2.7.egg',
  '/Users/kevin/src/nblog/eggs/PyRSS2Gen-1.1-py2.7.egg',
  '/Users/kevin/src/nblog/eggs/Yapsy-1.9.2-py2.7.egg',
  '/Users/kevin/src/nblog/eggs/lxml-3.1.2-py2.7-macosx-10.8-intel.egg',
  '/Users/kevin/src/nblog/eggs/Unidecode-0.04.12-py2.7.egg',
  '/Users/kevin/src/nblog/eggs/Mako-0.8.0-py2.7.egg',
  '/Users/kevin/src/nblog/eggs/docutils-0.10-py2.7.egg',
  '/Users/kevin/src/nblog/eggs/Pillow-2.0.0-py2.7-macosx-10.8-intel.egg',
  '/Users/kevin/src/nblog/eggs/Pygments-1.6-py2.7.egg',
  '/Users/kevin/src/nblog/eggs/doit-0.20.0-py2.7.egg',
  '/Users/kevin/src/nblog/eggs/MarkupSafe-0.15-py2.7-macosx-10.8-intel.egg',
  '/Users/kevin/src/nblog/eggs/MacFSEvents-0.3-py2.7-macosx-10.8-intel.egg',
  ]



"""Nikola main script."""

from __future__ import print_function
import os
import sys

# LIBDIR trick start (marker for removal on platforms that don't need it)
libdir = '@LIBDIR@'

# Two cases:
if libdir != '@' 'LIBDIR' '@':
    # Changed by our distutils hook, then use the given path.

    if not os.path.isabs(libdir):
        libdir = os.path.join(os.path.dirname(
            os.path.realpath(__file__)), libdir)
        libdir = os.path.abspath(libdir)
else:
    # Unchanged, running from checkout,
    # use the parent directory, the nikola package ought be there.
    libdir = os.path.join(os.path.dirname(__file__), "..")

sys.path.insert(0, libdir)

if "PYTHONPATH" not in os.environ:
    os.environ["PYTHONPATH"] = libdir
else:
    os.environ["PYTHONPATH"] = os.environ["PYTHONPATH"] + ":" + libdir

# LIBDIR trick end (marker for removal on platforms that don't need it)

from nikola import main

if __name__ == "__main__":
    sys.exit(main.main(sys.argv[1:]))