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I want to create a .egg file from a .whl. Is this possible?
I have found answers for doing the opposite (.whl from .egg) using the wheel package, but I cannot figure out how to properly do the reverse.
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EGG files can be created using the distutils package available by Python. Another tool that can create and open EGG files is SetupTools. EGG files can be installed as a package using easy_install.
Wheel is a distribution format, i.e a packaging format. 1 Egg was both a distribution format and a runtime installation format (if left zipped), and was designed to be importable. Wheel archives do not include . pyc files.
A pip is the first tiny hole in the egg that a chick makes as it begins to peck its way out.
You can use humpty, a command-line utility available on PyPI to do exactly that.
For instance
humpty -d . publicsuffixlist-0.2.8-py2.py3-none-any.whl
will generate a publicsuffixlist-0.2.8-py2.7.egg.
I wrote humpty because I needed to convert a .whl to a .egg. The task seemed doable, but I did not find any existing utilities or libraries which did the job.
Note that you can also do the opposite with Wheel convert which converts from .egg to .whl.
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