How do I list the files inside a python wheel?

Question

I\'m poking around the various options to setup.py for including non-python files, and they\'re somewhat less than intuitive. I\'d like to be able to check the

Answer 1

One could use Python's own zipfile module and CLI to list the files in a wheel (or any other zip file):

python -m zipfile --list path/to/my-wheel-file.whl

Or to extract:

python -m zipfile --extract path/to/my-wheel-file.whl path/to/output/directory