---
id: wheel
version: "0.48.0"
license: MIT
license_treatment: permissive
maintenance: active
---

# wheel — Command line tool for manipulating wheel files

License: permissive · Maintenance: active · Popularity: top 100 on PyPI

## Install

pip install wheel
uv add wheel
poetry add wheel

## Description

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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