2016-02-27 Why setup.py bdist_wheel does not work?ΒΆ

I recently tried to build a wheel for a specific module:

python setup.py bdist_wheel

And it failed with the following error:

error: invalid command 'bdist_wheel'

The module wheel was installed, setuptools was updated. The issue was explained in Why can I not create a wheel in python?. There are two functions setup, only the one from setuptools can build a wheel. The file setup.py must be updated:

# from distutils.core import setup
from setuptools import setup