[14:49:33] <xrmx> hello, is it normal that pip install tries setup.py bdist_wheel even if wheel is not installed? http://pastebin.com/Y0FmTZpv
[15:37:51] <sigmavirus> xrmx: looks like it checks to see if `wheel` is installed: https://github.com/pypa/pip/blob/b15c7f6b6a0ed13e524f1c48bd1693970302eba1/pip/commands/install.py#L294 and it shouldn't try to build the wheel if it's not installed
[15:38:08] <sigmavirus> xrmx: what version of pip do you have installed and how did you install it?
[15:54:41] <xrmx> dstufft, sigmavirus pip has this patches applied https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/python-modules/packages/python-pip.git/tree/debian/patches
[15:59:50] <dstufft> xrmx: sorry, I gotta go down to a doctor's appointment for my daughter- You might try popping a pdb in the pip source code there and seeing why it thinks wheel is importable
[16:00:34] <xrmx> dstufft, will give it a try, thanks for the help
[16:11:13] <xrmx> dstufft, apparently wheel is there <module 'wheel' from '/home/rm/src/foovenv35/share/python-wheels/wheel-0.29.0-py2.py3-none-any.whl/wheel/__init__.py'>
[22:30:45] <stefanv> Hi everyone; I'd like to pull some PyPa statistics from the Google BigTable, but I cannot find instructions on how to do that. Can you give me any hints?