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A built-package format for Python.
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A wheel is a ZIP-format archive with a specially formatted filename and the
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.whl extension. It is designed to contain all the files for a PEP 376
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compatible install in a way that is very close to the on-disk format.
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Many packages will be properly installed with only the "Unpack" step (simply
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extracting the file onto sys.path), and the unpacked archive preserves enough
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information to "Spread" (copy data and scripts to their final locations)
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at any later time.
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The wheel project provides a bdist_wheel command for setuptools (requires
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setuptools >= 0.8.0). Wheel files can be installed with a newer pip from
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https://github.com/pypa/pip or with wheel's own command line utility.
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WWW: http://bitbucket.org/dholth/wheel/
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