Cal Paterson • 2/11/2015

How to configure pip for fast installs of C code libraries

This article explains how to configure pip to create and cache wheel files for Python packages that contain C code, significantly speeding up installations in virtual environments. It details the necessary pip.conf settings, prerequisites like the wheel package, and demonstrates building wheels for dependencies. The author notes the advice is from 2015 and that modern pip versions handle caching automatically.

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