Why can I not create a wheel in python?

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00:54 Accepted answer (Score 311)
01:15 Answer 2 (Score 169)
01:41 Answer 3 (Score 39)
01:59 Answer 4 (Score 14)
02:18 Thank you

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Full question
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2666...

Question links:
https://gist.github.com/cloudformdesign/...

Accepted answer links:
[wheel]: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/wheel

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Tags
#python #pip #setuptools #pythonwheel

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ACCEPTED ANSWER

Score 311

Install the wheel package first:

pip install wheel

The documentation isn't overly clear on this, but "the wheel project provides a bdist_wheel command for setuptools" actually means "the wheel package...".

ANSWER 2

Score 170

I also ran into the error message invalid command 'bdist_wheel'

It turns out the package setup.py used distutils rather than setuptools. Changing it as follows enabled me to build the wheel.

#from distutils.core import setup
from setuptools import setup

ANSWER 3

Score 39

Update your setuptools, too.

pip install setuptools --upgrade

If that fails too, you could try with additional --force flag.

ANSWER 4

Score 15

I also ran into this all of a sudden, after it had previously worked, and it was because I was inside a virtualenv, and wheel wasn’t installed in the virtualenv.