python-wheel

A built-package format for Python.
A wheel is a ZIP-format archive with a specially formatted filename
and the .whl extension. It is designed to contain all the files for a
PEP 376 compatible install in a way that is very close to the on-disk
format. Many packages will be properly installed with only the "Unpack"
step (simply extracting the file onto sys.path), and the unpacked archive
preserves enough information to "Spread" (copy data and scripts to their
final locations) at any later time.
The wheel project provides a bdist_wheel command for setuptools
(requires distribute >= 0.6.34). Wheel files can be
installed with a newer pip from https://github.com/pypa/pip
or with wheel's own command line utility.
The wheel documentation is at http://wheel.rtfd.org/. The
file format is documented in PEP 427
(http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0427/).
The reference implementation is at http://bitbucket.org/dholth/wheel/

          

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License: MIT
URL: https://github.com/pypa/wheel