wheel

Command line tool for manipulating wheel files

wheel Permissive license MIT Active ★ 569 v0.48.0 released 2026-08-11

Install

wheel on PyPI

pip

pip install wheel

uv

uv add wheel

poetry

poetry add wheel

Package facts

License	MIT (permissive)
Python support	supports the current Python release (>=3.9)
Install friction	low — pure-Python wheel
Runtime dependencies	1 — packaging
Maintenance	actively maintained — 2 days since the last release
Last repo commit	2026-08-11
First released	2012-07-01
Popularity	one of the 100 most-downloaded packages on PyPI (30-day window, as of 2026-08-13)
Known vulnerabilities	none known (OSV.dev, checked 2026-08-13)

Evidence: wheel-0.48.0-py3-none-any.whl

Keywords: wheel, packaging

Development Status :: 5 - Production/StableIntended Audience :: DevelopersProgramming Language :: PythonProgramming Language :: Python :: 3 :: OnlyProgramming Language :: Python :: 3.10Programming Language :: Python :: 3.11Programming Language :: Python :: 3.12Programming Language :: Python :: 3.13Programming Language :: Python :: 3.14Programming Language :: Python :: 3.9Topic :: System :: Archiving :: Packaging

About wheel

from the package's own PyPI description — quoted content, verbatim

wheel

This is a command line tool for manipulating Python wheel files, as defined in PEP 427_. It contains the following functionality:

Convert .egg archives into .whl
Unpack wheel archives
Repack wheel archives
Add or remove tags in existing wheel archives

.. _PEP 427: https://peps.python.org/pep-0427/

Historical note

This project used to contain the implementation of the setuptools_ bdist_wheel command, but as of setuptools v70.1, it no longer needs wheel installed for that to work. Thus, you should install this only if you intend to use the wheel command line tool!

.. _setuptools: https://pypi.org/project/setuptools/

Documentation

The documentation_ can be found on Read The Docs.

.. _documentation: https://wheel.readthedocs.io/

Code of Conduct

Everyone interacting in the wheel project's codebases, issue trackers, chat rooms, and mailing lists is expected to follow the PSF Code of Conduct_.

.. _PSF Code of Conduct: https://github.com/pypa/.github/blob/main/CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md

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