https://github.com/MrMino/wheelfile

🔪🧀 API for creating and inspecting Python .whl files (wheels)
https://github.com/MrMino/wheelfile

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🔪🧀 API for creating and inspecting Python .whl files (wheels)

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/MrMino/wheelfile
• Owner: MrMino
• License: mit
• Created: 2020-12-20T06:12:33.000Z (almost 4 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2024-11-04T09:49:24.000Z (about 1 month ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-11-11T05:22:24.429Z (about 1 month ago)
• Topics: metadata, packages, packaging, packaging-python, python, python-wheel, python-wheels
• Language: Python
• Homepage:
• Size: 206 KB
• Stars: 30
• Watchers: 1
• Forks: 5
• Open Issues: 9
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README.md
  • Changelog: CHANGELOG.md
  • License: LICENSE

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README

        


 Wheelfile 🔪🧀


This library aims to make it dead simple to create a format-compliant [.whl

file (wheel)](https://pythonwheels.com/). It provides an API comparable to

[zipfile](https://docs.python.org/3/library/zipfile.html). Use this if you wish

to inspect or create wheels in your code.

For a quick look, see the example on the right, which packages the wheelfile

module itself into a wheel 🤸.

#### What's the difference between this and [wheel](https://pypi.org/project/wheel/)?

"Wheel" tries to provide a reference implementation for the standard. It is used

by setuptools and has its own CLI, but no stable API. The goal of Wheelfile is

to provide a simple API.

Wheelfile does not depend on Wheel.

## Acknowledgements

Thanks to [Paul Moore](https://github.com/pfmoore) for providing

[his gist](https://gist.github.com/pfmoore/20f3654ca33f8b14f0fcb6dfa1a6b469)

of basic metadata parsing logic, which helped to avoid many foolish mistakes

in the initial implementation.






















```

pip install wheelfile

```

```py

from wheelfile import WheelFile, __version__

spec = {

    'distname': 'wheelfile',

    'version': __version__

}

requirements = [

    'packaging >= 20.8',

]

with WheelFile(mode='w', **spec) as wf:

    wf.metadata.requires_dists = requirements

    wf.write('./wheelfile.py')

# 🧀

```




 More examples:

     buildscript  |

     PEP-517 builder