What did we download? - Packaging in Python

We see that there are is a .whl file

Source:

!ls numpy*

numpy-2.3.1-cp312-cp312-manylinux_2_28_x86_64.whl

What is it?

Source:

!file numpy*.whl

numpy-2.3.1-cp312-cp312-manylinux_2_28_x86_64.whl: Zip archive data, at least v2.0 to extract, compression method=store

It’s a ZIP file! That means we can extract it, and look inside.