PyPi package missing wheel (.whl) file causes "pip download" command to fail

[MicImbriani]

Whenever the following command is ran:

python3 -m pip download \
    --no-cache-dir \
    --only-binary=:all: \
    --platform win_amd64 \
    --python-version 39 \
    --implementation cp \
    yepkit-pykush

to return the following error:

ERROR: Could not find a version that satisfies the requirement yepkit-pykush
ERROR: No matching distribution found for yepkit-pykush

From my understanding, this is because the yepkit-pykush package that is donwloadable from PyPi is missing the wheel file.

Proposed solution:

Use the following command to create a wheel file and publish it on PyPi:

$ python setup.py sdist bdist_wheel --universal
$ python -m pip install -U twine
$ python -m twine upload dist/*

Taken from here: https://realpython.com/python-wheels/#calling-all-developers-build-your-wheels