How to install shapely (python package)

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The instructions for Windows ask to download the installer from http://www.lfd.uci.edu/~gohlke/pythonlibs/

The link for my version displays as "Shapely‑1.5.13‑cp27‑none‑win_amd64.whl".

However it is actually a zip file, which contains 2 folders, neither of which appear to contain a .whl file or an installer.

Note that the question is not about how to install a .whl file, but why I can't see a .whl file.

How do I install this?

Is there a reason you can't install this normally using pip? — Two-Bit Alchemist, Nov 28 '15 at 01:14
The instructions (https://pypi.python.org/pypi/Shapely) mention that the installer is required for windows. If I simply run 'pip install shapely', I get "No matching distribution found for shapely" — Alexis Eggermont, Nov 28 '15 at 01:18
Possible duplicate of [How do I install a Python package with a .whl file?](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/27885397/how-do-i-install-a-python-package-with-a-whl-file) — Two-Bit Alchemist, Nov 28 '15 at 01:21
Apparently you can use pip to install those. Sorry, bit out of my experience. I only use Python on Linux. — Two-Bit Alchemist, Nov 28 '15 at 01:23
Not a duplicate, I know how to install a .whl file but the problem is that there seems to be no .whl file here. — Alexis Eggermont, Nov 28 '15 at 01:24
That's weird, because when I go to that link I download a .whl file. — Two-Bit Alchemist, Nov 28 '15 at 01:27
When I `unzip` it, it unzips into a couple of directories full of `.py` files, so I imagine you could just unzip that into your `site-packages` somewhere. — Two-Bit Alchemist, Nov 28 '15 at 01:29
I renamed the .zip into a .whl and ran it using pip. It worked. Strange but good. Thanks for the help! — Alexis Eggermont, Nov 28 '15 at 01:32
Your browser must have renamed the file during download - Christoph Gohlke only posts `.whl` files on his site. — MattDMo, Nov 28 '15 at 02:06
`.whl` files are zip files (first two bytes are `PK`), so don't unzip it and re-name back to that extension (assuming your browser had fiddled around with it) — Mike T, Nov 29 '15 at 09:47

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The file is a .whl, you can install it by running

pip install ___.whl

answered Dec 09 '15 at 22:06

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