wheel

wheel is the PyPA reference implementation of the Python wheel binary distribution format (PEP 427), providing a command-line tool for inspecting, unpacking, repacking, converting, and retagging .whl files. As of v0.46.0, it no longer ships the setuptools bdist_wheel command — that implementation now lives in setuptools ≥70.1. Current stable version is 0.46.3, released on a roughly quarterly cadence with occasional patch releases for CVEs and compatibility fixes.