The wheelhouse of horrors

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Covers problems that arise when building and distributing Python binary wheels for C/C++ extensions—runtime breakages from subtle build issues—and shows how to recognize and avoid those scenarios. Explains the manylinux standard for Linux platform wheels and demonstrates using cibuildwheel to automate building and distributing manylinux-compatible wheels.

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1. 0:00Start
2. 3:23Wheel flavours
3. 4:20Platform Wheels
4. 5:38What's in the file name?
5. 9:17Dependency on external library
6. 16:02Incorrectly tagged wheel
7. 19:30Summing up

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