bdistwheel
bdist_wheel is a distutils/setuptools command used to create wheel distributions for Python projects. A wheel (.whl) is the standard built distribution format for Python, designed to enable fast installations by avoiding a package build step at install time. The command is implemented by the wheel project and is commonly used alongside setuptools to produce a ready-to-install archive from a project’s source.
When you run the command, it reads the project’s metadata (such as name, version, and dependencies) and
Wheels use a filename convention that encodes compatibility information, for example: package-1.2.3-py3-none-any.whl. The segments indicate distribution
Usage and context: a common workflow is python setup.py bdist_wheel, producing a wheel in dist/. In modern