Mastering GUI Programming with Python

Installing a built distribution

Just as with source distributions, we can install our wheel file using pip:

$ pip install qtictactoe/dist/QTicTacToe-1.0-py3-none-any.whl

If you try this in a fresh virtual environment, you should find that, once again, PyQt5 is downloaded from PyPI and installed and that you have the qtictactoe command available afterward. There isn't much difference to the end user in the case of a program such as QTicTacToe, but in the case of a library with binary files to compile (such as PyQt5), it makes the set up considerably less problematic.

Of course, even a wheel file requires that the target system have Python and pip installed, as well as access to the internet and PyPI. This is still a lot to ask of many users ...