Why can I not create a wheel in python

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Here are the commands I am running     python setup py bdist wheel usage  setup py  global opts  cmd1  cmd1 opts   cmd2  cmd2 opts          or  setup py --help  cmd1 cmd2         or  setup py --help-commands    or  setup py cmd --help  error  invalid command  bdist wheel     pip --version pip 1 5 6 from  usr local lib python3 4 site-packages  python 3 4     python -c  import setuptools  print setuptools   version     2 1    python --version Python 3 4 1    which python  usr local bin python   Also  I am running a mac with homebrewed python  Here is my setup py script  https   gist github com cloudformdesign 4791c46fe7cd52eb61cd  I m going absolutely crazy -- I can t figure out why this wouldn t be working

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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

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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

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Update your pip first   pip install --upgrade pip   for Python 3   pip3 install --upgrade pip

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It could also be that you have a python3 system only   You therefore have installed the necessary packages via pip3 install   like pip3 install wheel   You ll need to build your stuff using python3 specifically   python3 setup py sdist python3 setup py bdist wheel   Cheers

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Throwing in another answer  Try checking your PYTHONPATH   First  try to install wheel again   pip install wheel   This should tell you where wheel is installed  eg   Requirement already satisfied  wheel in  usr local lib python3 5 dist-packages   Then add the location of wheel to your PYTHONPATH   export PYTHONPATH  PYTHONPATH  usr local lib python3 5 dist-packages wheel   Now building a wheel should work fine   python setup py bdist wheel

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I tried everything said here without any luck  but found a workaround  After running this command  and failing    bazel-bin tensorflow tools pip package build pip package  tmp tensorflow pkg  Go to the temporary directory the tool made  given in the output of the last command   then execute python setup py bdist wheel  The  whl file is in the dist folder

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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

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Update your setuptools  too    pip install setuptools --upgrade   If that fails too  you could try with additional --force flag

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