wheel
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`GitHub <https://github.com/pypa/wheel>`_ |
`PyPI <https://pypi.org/pypi/wheel/>`_ |
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This library is the reference implementation of the Python wheel packaging
standard, as defined in `PEP 427`_.

It has two different roles:

#. A setuptools_ extension for building wheels that provides the
   ``bdist_wheel`` setuptools command
#. A command line tool for working with wheel files

.. _PEP 427: https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0427/
.. _setuptools: https://pypi.org/project/setuptools/

.. toctree::
   :maxdepth: 2

   quickstart
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   user_guide
   reference/index
   development
   news
