Re: the name ``wheel''

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.)