the name ``wheel''

[Thomas Schweikle]

Am Do., 21.März.2024 um 18:58:26 schrieb Johanne Fairchild via Python-list:
> 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.

The python packages found at https://www.python.org/downloads/ come with 
pip and pip installed out of the box.

But there are others like active python having other packet managers 
they do not install pip out of the box. Refer to their instructions how 
to install packages.
-- 
Thomas

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