WinPython tools

Copyright @ 2012-2013 Pierre Raybaut

Copyright @ 2014-2025+ The Winpython development team https://github.com/winpython/

Licensed under the terms of the MIT License (see wppm/__init__.py for details)

Overview

WinPython is a portable distribution of the Python programming language for Windows (https://winpython.github.io).

This is the wppm Python package and build toolchain repository, not the distribution itself. It includes two main features:

WinPython Package Manager (WPPM): a complementary tool to navigate provided packages, install packages from included Wheelhouse, or register WinPython. pip is the recommanded way to add or remove packages otherwise
WinPython build toolchain: generate_a_winpython_distro.bat and make.py are the toolchain used to build a WinPython distribution from (almost) scratch.
WinPython set of Wheel: You can get also the equivalent of the WinPython distribution by using one of the provided pylock.toml or by using provided requirements-with-hash.txt until pip does support pylock.toml files

Dependencies

Python3 >= 3.10

Requirements

installer can be 7-Zip or nothing (just .zip-it)

Wppm build

From the source package (see section 'Building dependencies'), you may build WPPM using the following commands:

python -m pip install flit

python -m flit build

Winpython Distribution wheels installation

To only install the wheels assembled per WinPython Distribution, you may **python -m pip install --no-deps --require-hashes https://github.com/winpython/winpython/releases/download/16.6.20250620final/requir.64-3_13_5_0slim.txt

A pylock file is also available, when you package manager can handle it **https://github.com/winpython/winpython/releases/download/16.6.20250620final/pylock.64-3_13_5_0slim.toml

But the easiest way to install the last stable release of WinPython is by using a zipped distribution with or without auto-extractor: https://winpython.github.io/

More informations

Downloads: https://sourceforge.net/projects/winpython/files/ or https://github.com/winpython/winpython/releases
Development, bug reports, discussions and feature requests: https://github.com/winpython/winpython
Discussions: https://github.com/winpython/winpython/discussions