Path: ...!weretis.net!feeder8.news.weretis.net!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!not-for-mail
From: ram@zedat.fu-berlin.de (Stefan Ram)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.python
Subject: Re: the name ``wheel''
Date: 21 Mar 2024 18:10:15 GMT
Organization: Stefan Ram
Lines: 32
Expires: 1 Feb 2025 11:59:58 GMT
Message-ID: <Python-20240321190917@ram.dialup.fu-berlin.de>
References: <87plvnakay.fsf@tudado.org> <Python-20240321125742@ram.dialup.fu-berlin.de> <87frwj8o1p.fsf@tudado.org>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
X-Trace: news.uni-berlin.de UeGJmmD8c9UcTTP8jPHyJg5qXdw+G7ISFPET3dEU/kyXR5
Cancel-Lock: sha1:q4nq2/yCHelb5LwXI7GRERQu3NY= sha256:52RG04K/SJav2aFl9YtZNScOHgvH30gn5prApga0kfA=
X-Copyright: (C) Copyright 2024 Stefan Ram. All rights reserved.
	Distribution through any means other than regular usenet
	channels is forbidden. It is forbidden to publish this
	article in the Web, to change URIs of this article into links,
        and to transfer the body without this notice, but quotations
        of parts in other Usenet posts are allowed.
X-No-Archive: Yes
Archive: no
X-No-Archive-Readme: "X-No-Archive" is set, because this prevents some
	services to mirror the article in the web. But the article may
	be kept on a Usenet archive server with only NNTP access.
X-No-Html: yes
Content-Language: en-US
Accept-Language: de-DE-1901, en-US, it, fr-FR
Bytes: 3088

Johanne Fairchild <jfairchild@tudado.org> wrote or quoted:
>ram@zedat.fu-berlin.de (Stefan Ram) writes:
>>Johanne Fairchild <jfairchild@tudado.org> wrote or quoted:
>>>Why is a whl-package called a ``wheel''?  Is it just a pronunciation for
>>>the extension WHL or is it really a name?
>>PyPi in its initial state was named "cheese shop", as the famous
>>part in the show "Monty Python Cheese Shop". Because initially it
>>only hosted links to the packages, so it was empty like that shop.
>>And within a cheese shop what do you store? Wheels of cheese.
>Lol!  Loved it.  (Thanks very much.)

  I'm glad you enjoyed it!

>>>Also, it seems that when I install Python on Windows, it doesn't come
>>>with pip ready to run.  I had to say
>>Some Python distributions do not come with pip pre-installed
>>because they have their own package management systems.
>But this was a Windows install.  I don't think Windows has its own
>package management for Python packages.  I'd be totally surprised.

  I install Python from

www.python.org/downloads/windows/

  . Some versions of the installer have "[ ] Install launcher for
  all users (recommended)"; when this is not checked, one sometimes
  does not need admin rights. Some versions of the installer have
  "[V] Add Python to PATH". If this is not checked, it's possible
  that pip is installed, but not on the path, so it might not be
  callable easily from the command line, and the command "python"
  then sometimes brings up a different Python than installed. (On
  Windows, one can use "py" to call Python on the command line.)