what are python wheels? (intermediate - advanced) anthony explains

today I talk about wheels, what the filename means, how they're built, what the format looks like, and how to install them!
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[@jeffz7310]

Thank you for being the best Python explainer ever

[@GameSmilexD]

generally people this good also dont share much content, thankfully he does

[@dineshr93]

19:14 five different wheel paths that are mapped to different folders in env/pythonx path

[@AZIARGROUS]

Awesome stuff as always, thanks you rock! A debatable (in usefulness) request: an intro to eggs and easy_install? They are all superseded now but they do still pop up from time to time

[@anthonywritescode]

eggs and easy_install should really never be used any more

[@MurtagBY]

thank you

[@mohamedelrefaiy]

please how to fix that error note: This error originates from a subprocess, and is likely not a problem with pip. ERROR: Failed building wheel for pyarrow Failed to build pyarrow ERROR: Could not build wheels for pyarrow, which is required to install pyproject.toml-based projects

[@musicforwork5461]

You probably have sorted this out, I'd go onto stackoverflow next time, but there are a number of problems that could have caused this. I get this issue sometimes if I'm using the wrong version of python, or if something about the file doesn't work for macos, or isn't built for the new m1 chip or if there is a bug that requires a newer update than that listed in the requirements. First try a different version of the tool, then check the other factors if it still doesn't work.

[@PouriyaJamshidi]

Thanks! Maybe a short video on building wheels?

[@anthonywritescode]

the problem is that tooling is quite a bit in flux right now -- there's both `pip wheel .` and `build ...` and `python setup.py bdist_wheel` -- if you check out the links in the video description I go over some of those

[@Seff2]

So... Why do I need this? Isn't that the same als just installing stuff with pip?

[@antongorshenin1116]

Thank you very much! Very good explanations! Second like for squishmellows on the back! :)

[@jeffz7310]

Could you make a video about setting up real time linter in vscode for jupyter notebook? And maybe a general linter for other .py files too

[@anthonywritescode]

I don't use vs code nor jupyter so I wouldn't really know what to speak about there -- as for python linters there's a few on that topic -- the best is probably my github universe talk: kzbin.info/www/bejne/b2iyf3msp6uBeJo

[@jeffz7310]

@@anthonywritescode do you just use a text editor

[@anthonywritescode]

yep -- I use my own text editor: github.com/asottile/babi

[@bennguyen1313]

So if you install a python package from wheel or a windows installer, then it won't show up in pip show (or pip freeze) correct? I've been trying to find an older version of sip (wheel) that work with python 3.4 / PyQt 5.4.1.. as my application script runs fine, but the 32-bit exe built from it (nuitka) has the error : No module named 'sip'

[@anthonywritescode]

it shouldn't be any different from a wheel. I don't know anything about windows installers though

[@ahmedifhaam7266]

hang on, I thought python was the default implementation of python ? how is py actually different from cp again ?

[@magicsmoke0]

I didn't see anything on generating the wheel files. is that in another video? Especially a more complicated one with multiple source files and directories.

[@anthonywritescode]

that's just python packaging -- not really related

[@anthonywritescode]

I have a bunch of packaging videos if you want to understand that portion

[@JeroenLapre]

Thanks for helping demistifying python wheels!

[@k98killer]

A file with a self-referential hash is technically possible by parsing the file content and removing the line containing the self-referential hash, but that would be incompatible with other file hashing tools.

[@anthonywritescode]

that wouldn't be a self-referential hash then

[@k98killer]

@@anthonywritescode it is a self-referential content hash, just with the line containing the hash excluded from the hashing operation. It's the closest thing you can get to it.

[@brahimboughanam1662]

thank you watching you at 03:30 am

[@beto5720]

You need to do a whole video of Monty Python references in python lol