diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 4b2718a3dd5..4a6d02846e3 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ It supports Python 2.7 and 3.4+.
 
 Poetry provides a custom installer that will install `poetry` isolated
 from the rest of your system by vendorizing its dependencies. This is the
-recommended way of installing `poetry`.
+recommended way of installing `poetry`. The installer installs a script to run Poetry, which will use the version of Python used to install Poetry.
 
 ```bash
 curl -sSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/sdispater/poetry/master/get-poetry.py | python
diff --git a/get-poetry.py b/get-poetry.py
index e369c866d32..df0b5b44e08 100644
--- a/get-poetry.py
+++ b/get-poetry.py
@@ -194,7 +194,7 @@ def expanduser(path):
 POETRY_LIB_BACKUP = os.path.join(POETRY_HOME, "lib-backup")
 
 
-BIN = """#!/usr/bin/env python
+BIN_TEMPLATE = """#!/usr/bin/env {python_executable_name}
 # -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
 import glob
 import sys
@@ -580,8 +580,10 @@ def make_bin(self):
                 )
 
         with open(os.path.join(POETRY_BIN, "poetry"), "w", encoding="utf-8") as f:
-            f.write(u(BIN))
-
+            python_executable_name = os.path.basename(Installer.CURRENT_PYTHON)
+            f.write(
+                u(BIN_TEMPLATE.format(python_executable_name=python_executable_name))
+            )
         if not WINDOWS:
             # Making the file executable
             st = os.stat(os.path.join(POETRY_BIN, "poetry"))