Binary package “python-wheel-common” in ubuntu xenial

built-package format for Python

 A wheel is a ZIP-format archive with a specially formatted filename and the
 `.whl` extension. It is designed to contain all the files for a PEP 376
 compatible install in a way that is very close to the on-disk format.
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 The wheel project provides a `bdist_wheel` command for setuptools. Wheel
 files can be installed with `pip`.
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 These are the command line scripts and manpages.