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title: "Discussion on \"pip just stopped promising that installing a wheel runs no code\" | Hashnode"
description: "Discussion on \"pip just stopped promising that installing a wheel runs no code\". For years, most Python developers carried one quiet belief: installing a wheel is safe because it runs no code. A wheel is just a zip. You unpack it. Nothing executes. Source distributions run build c"
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For years, most Python developers carried one quiet belief: installing a wheel is safe because it runs no code. A wheel is just a zip. You unpack it. Nothing executes. Source distributions run build c

6h ago · 5 min read · vikramkumarshukla.hashnode.dev  
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