the name ``wheel''
Johanne Fairchild
jfairchild at tudado.org
Thu Mar 21 13:58:26 EDT 2024
ram at zedat.fu-berlin.de (Stefan Ram) writes:
> Johanne Fairchild <jfairchild at 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.)
>>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.
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