r...@zedat.fu-berlin.de (Stefan Ram) writes: > Johanne Fairchild <jfairch...@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. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
