For people who are confused by this: "Wheel has an official standard specification. Egg did not. Wheel is a distribution format, i.e a packaging format. 1 Egg

For people who are confused by this: "Wheel has an official standard specification. Egg did not. 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." [1] [1] https://packaging.python.org/discussions/wheel-vs-egg/ https://packaging.python.org/discussions/wheel-vs-egg/