The Black Magic of Python Wheels

Speaker

Elana Hashman

Material

• video
• slide

Note

• The Wheel
  • PEP 427
  • Follow PEP 376 (standard of distribution), PEP 426 (metadata)
  • 3 types of wheels
    • Pure wheels
      • Only Python code
      • May target specific version of Python
    • Universal wheels
      • Python 2/3 compatible pure wheels
    • Extension wheels
      • Extension: this library extends Python’s functionality with
        non-Python code
  • Users now can install pre-built Python wheels.
    • How to ship compiled Python extensions on many operating systems
      • manylinux (Symbol Versioning)
      • auditwheel (Dependency Bundling)

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