Wheel is a compiled archive format with the .whl extension.
A wheel is a built package that can be installed without needing to go through the “build” process. Installing wheels is substantially faster for the end user than installing from a source distribution.
The binary distribution format (wheel) is defined in PEP 427.
Install the wheel utility.
pip install wheel
# or
python -m pip install --user --upgrade wheel
Downloading/unpacking wheel
Installing collected packages: wheel
Successfully installed wheel
Cleaning up...
# python 2
sudo yum upgrade python-setuptools
sudo yum install python-pip python-wheel
# python 3
sudo yum install python3 python3-wheel
in the scripts location
dir C:\Users\gerard\AppData\Roaming\Python\Python37\Scripts
wheel.exe
pip install SomePackage-1.0-py2.py3-none-any.whl
where:
Example
The wheel archive comes from here
pip install numpy-1.9.2+mkl-cp27-none-win_amd64.whl
Unpacking c:\users\nicolasgerard\downloads\numpy-1.9.2+mkl-cp27-none-win_amd64.whl
Installing collected packages: numpy
Successfully installed numpy
Cleaning up...
cd ./project
python setup.py bdist_wheel