WHEEL(1)

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version 0.47.0 · 7 versions
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🎡 WHEEL(1) — the manual, but make it cute

okay bestie, you found the wheel page in section 1 of the manual. yes THE wheel. the Python packaging one. sit down, hydrate, we're doing this 💖

✨ NAME ✨

wheel — it's the wheel Documentation, that's literally it, that's the name, periodt 💅

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

wheel [command] [options]

that's the whole vibe. you give it a command, you throw some options at it, it does the thing ✨

🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

so, wheel installs and operates on PEP 427 (https://peps.python.org/pep-0427/) format binary wheels. that's it, that's the elevator pitch 🎀

👑 COMMANDS 👑

here's the menu, bestie. pick ur fighter 🫶

  • unpack — Unpack wheel. it opens the lil gift box 🎁
  • pack — Repack a previously unpacked wheel. you unpacked it, now put it BACK 🧚
  • convert — Convert egg or wininst to wheel. glow-up makeover, egg era ➡️ wheel era ✨
  • info — Show information about a wheel file. telling you everything, no secrets, no cap 💜
  • tags — Change the tags on a wheel file. rebranding arc 🔥
  • version — Print version and exit. it says hi and then it LEAVES 😭
  • help — Show this help. the page you're already on bestie, recursion iconic 💫

and like, try wheel <command> --help for more information. every command has lore, iykyk 🌈

🌟 OPTIONS 🌟

  • -h, --help — show this help message and exit. the classic. the icon. the "help" flag that has helped us all 👑

🎀 Author

Daniel Holth — the one who did it, the main character, the blueprint 💜

2012, Daniel Holth — respect the elders, they invented this 🫡

ok that's the whole page bestie, no notes, go forth and unpack responsibly ✨💖

and for the record, this was wheel 0.47.0, dated Apr 24, 2026 — stan the version number, it's giving vintage-in-a-good-way 🦋🌷🎀 slay, bye! 💅

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