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wheel-filename lets you verify wheel filenames and parse them into their component fields.

This package adheres strictly to the standard, with the following exceptions:

• Version components may be any sequence of the relevant set of characters; they are not verified for PEP 440 compliance.
• The .whl file extension is matched case-insensitively.

wheel-filename requires Python 3.8 or higher. Just use pip for Python 3 (You have pip, right?) to install it:

python3 -m pip install wheel-filename

>>> from wheel_filename import parse_wheel_filename
>>> pwf = parse_wheel_filename('pip-18.0-py2.py3-none-any.whl')
>>> str(pwf)
'pip-18.0-py2.py3-none-any.whl'
>>> pwf.project
'pip'
>>> pwf.version
'18.0'
>>> pwf.build is None
True
>>> pwf.python_tags
['py2', 'py3']
>>> pwf.abi_tags
['none']
>>> pwf.platform_tags
['any']
>>> list(pwf.tag_triples())
['py2-none-any', 'py3-none-any']

parse_wheel_filename(filename)

Parses a wheel filename (a str, bytes, or os.PathLike) and returns a ParsedWheelFilename instance. Any leading directory components are stripped from the argument before processing. If the filename is not a valid wheel filename, raises an InvalidFilenameError.

ParsedWheelFilename

A namedtuple representing the components of a wheel filename. It has the following attributes and methods:

project: str

The name of the project distributed by the wheel

version: str

The version of the project distributed by the wheel

build: Optional[str]

The wheel's build tag (None if not defined)

python_tags: List[str]

A list of Python tags for the wheel

abi_tags: List[str]

A list of ABI tags for the wheel

platform_tags: List[str]

A list of platform tags for the wheel

str(pwf)

Stringifying a ParsedWheelFilename returns the original filename

tag_triples() -> Iterator[str]

Returns an iterator of all simple tag triples formed from the compatibility tags in the filename

InvalidFilenameError

A subclass of ValueError raised when an invalid wheel filename is passed to parse_wheel_filename(). It has a filename attribute containing the basename of the invalid filename.

New in version 1.4.0

wheel-filename also provides a command of the same name that takes a wheel filename (The actual wheel does not have to exist) and outputs the filename components as JSON.

Example:

$ wheel-filename pip-18.0-py2.py3-none-any.whl
{
    "project": "pip",
    "version": "18.0",
    "build": null,
    "python_tags": [
        "py2",
        "py3"
    ],
    "abi_tags": [
        "none"
    ],
    "platform_tags": [
        "any"
    ]
}