From ac36e1e41c4e81540cc0fb63e69aeff2644b261c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Nicole Harris Date: Thu, 30 Jul 2026 22:10:16 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] Update description of wheels to "built distributions" --- source/discussions/package-formats.rst | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/source/discussions/package-formats.rst b/source/discussions/package-formats.rst index 6d4dee35c..f5aeb1e10 100644 --- a/source/discussions/package-formats.rst +++ b/source/discussions/package-formats.rst @@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ This page discusses the file formats that are used to distribute Python packages and the differences between them. You will find files in two formats on package indices such as PyPI_: **source -distributions**, or **sdists** for short, and **binary distributions**, commonly +distributions**, or **sdists** for short, and **built distributions**, commonly called **wheels**. For example, the `PyPI page for pip 23.3.1 `_ lets you download two files, ``pip-23.3.1.tar.gz`` and ``pip-23.3.1-py3-none-any.whl``. The former is an sdist, the latter is a