May 2018
Intermediate to advanced
380 pages
9h 37m
English
Installing packages normally happens by looking at http://pypi.python.org/pypi for the desired module, but pip supports installing from version control, local projects, and from distribution files as well.
Python wheels are pre-built archives that can speed up the package installation process compared to installing from source files. They can be compared to installing pre-made binary applications for an operating system rather than building and installing source files.
Wheels were developed to replace Python eggs, which performed wheels' functions before the new packaging standards were developed. Wheels improve on eggs by specifying the .dist-info directory (a database of installed Python packages that ...