diff --git a/CMakeLists.txt b/CMakeLists.txt
index 1bf54da4fb..e7504d7026 100644
--- a/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -439,14 +439,16 @@ if (FF_USE_PYTHON)
     COMMAND ${PYTHON_EXECUTABLE} ${CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR}/deps/legion/bindings/python/setup.py build --cmake-build-dir ${Legion_BINARY_DIR}/runtime --prefix ${Legion_BINARY_DIR} --build-lib=${Legion_BINARY_DIR}/bindings/python ${Legion_PYTHON_EXTRA_INSTALL_ARGS}
     WORKING_DIRECTORY ${CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR}/deps/legion/bindings/python
   )
-  # create flexflow_python interpreter
-  add_custom_command(TARGET flexflow
-    PRE_BUILD	
-    COMMAND ${PYTHON_EXECUTABLE} ${FLEXFLOW_ROOT}/python/flexflow_python_build.py --build-dir ${CMAKE_BINARY_DIR}
-    WORKING_DIRECTORY ${CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR}
-    COMMENT "Creating flexflow_python interpreter..."
-  )
-  install(PROGRAMS ${CMAKE_BINARY_DIR}/flexflow_python DESTINATION "bin")
+  # create flexflow_python interpreter. When building from pip, we install the FF_HOME/python/flexflow_python script instead.
+  if (NOT FF_BUILD_FROM_PYPI)
+    add_custom_command(TARGET flexflow
+      PRE_BUILD	
+      COMMAND ${PYTHON_EXECUTABLE} ${FLEXFLOW_ROOT}/python/flexflow_python_build.py --build-dir ${CMAKE_BINARY_DIR}
+      WORKING_DIRECTORY ${CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR}
+      COMMENT "Creating flexflow_python interpreter..."
+    )
+    install(PROGRAMS ${CMAKE_BINARY_DIR}/flexflow_python DESTINATION "bin")
+  endif()
 endif()
 
 # build binary
diff --git a/python/flexflow/flexflow_python b/python/flexflow/flexflow_python
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..ac7c5dd827
--- /dev/null
+++ b/python/flexflow/flexflow_python
@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+#! /usr/bin/env bash
+
+# This file runs the flexflow_python interpreter when installing FlexFlow via pip. This file can be ignored when installing FlexFlow using cmake/make
+
+python_packages=$(python -c "from distutils import sysconfig; print(sysconfig.get_python_lib(plat_specific=False,standard_lib=False))")
+export PATH="${python_packages}/flexflow/bin:${PATH}"
+
+legion_python "$@"
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 69c393cbe7..6cc71c718e 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -39,6 +39,7 @@
         "pybind11",
         "ninja",
     ],
+    scripts=['python/flexflow_python'],
     ext_modules=[
         CMakeExtension(
             name="flexflow",