Re: the name ``wheel''

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.

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.