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: References: <87plvnakay.fsf@tudado.org> <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 wrote or quoted: >ram@zedat.fu-berlin.de (Stefan Ram) writes: >>Johanne Fairchild 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.)