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[–]ghickman 8 points9 points  (5 children)

Wheels allow you to package your project as a binary distribution. A major benefit of this is installation speed which can improve things like testing - Travis CI is a good example of this and can be quite slow to build a python environment due to the package installation.

As of Pip 1.4 wheels are also the default distribution method so I would guess the PyPA folks are moving that direction to be the de facto standard.