diff --git a/utils/scanpypi b/utils/scanpypi
index bb3899241b..9abf3c4139 100755
--- a/utils/scanpypi
+++ b/utils/scanpypi
@@ -255,12 +255,12 @@ class BuildrootPackage():
             # called through the if __name__ == '__main__' directive.
             # In this case, we can only pray that it is called through a
             # function called main() in setup.py.
-            setup.main([]) # Will raise AttributeError if not found
+            setup.main() # Will raise AttributeError if not found
             self.setup_metadata = self.setup_args[self.metadata_name]
         # Here we must remove the module the hard way.
         # We must do this because of a very specific case: if a package calls
         # setup from the __main__ but does not come with a 'main()' function,
-        # for some reason setup.main([]) will successfully call the main
+        # for some reason setup.main() will successfully call the main
         # function of a previous package...
         sys.modules.pop('setup',None)
         del setup