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.
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