May 2018
Intermediate to advanced
380 pages
9h 37m
English
The wheel file name format breaks down to <package_name>-<version>-<language_version>-<abi_tag>-<platform_tag>.whl. The package name is the name of the module to be installed, followed by the version of this particular wheel file.
The language version refers to Python 2 or Python 3; it can be as specific as necessary, such as py27 (any Python 2.7.x version) or py3 (any Python 3.x.x version).
The ABI tag refers to the Application Binary Interface. In the past, the underlying C API (Application Programming Interface) that the Python interpreter relies on changed with every release, typically by adding API features rather than changing or removing existing APIs. The Windows OS is particularly affected, where each Python feature ...