How do I configure tox so it produces a wheel?

Question

According to the docs, tox creates "a source distribution of the current project by invoking python setup.py sdist".

How do I configure tox so it produces a wheel instead and then uses it for testing?:

python setup.py bdist_wheel --universal

Answer 1

tox 4

Set package = wheel in tox configuration.

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tox 3

There is a tox plugin that seems to do exactly that. I haven't tested it so I can't vouch for it personally:

• tox-wheel

Alternatively you could read these discussions on this exact topic, there are some workarounds mentioned in there:

• https://github.com/tox-dev/tox/issues/185
• https://github.com/tox-dev/tox/issues/232