Toolkit to provide structured information about Python's canonical binary distribution format: wheels! This repo is named after the historical spec PEP-0427, but it is implemented based on the up-to-date spec.
It includes the following features:
- Wheel name parsing.
WHEEL
file parsing.- Opening
.whl
files to allow parsing w/o fully unpacking the file.
Targeted features which are not yet implemented:
METADATA
file parsing.RECORD
file parsing.
This library does not and will not support installing wheels.
This library is currently not available on crates.io. To add it to your project, you need to add a git dependency:
[dependencies.py_wheel]
git = "https://github.com/crockeo/pep-427-rs"
rev = "<HEAD of main>"
MIT Open Source, see LICENSE.