filename.whl is not supported wheel on this platform

Answer #1:

cp33 means CPython 3.3 you need scipy?0.15.1?cp27?none?win_amd64.whl instead.

Answer #2:

This can also be caused by using an out-of-date pip with a recent wheel file.

I was very confused, because I was installing numpy-1.10.4+mkl-cp27-cp27m-win_amd64.whl (from here), and it is definitely the correct version for my Python installation (Windows 64-bit Python 2.7.11). I got the “not supported wheel on this platform” error.

Upgrading pip with python -m pip install --upgrade pip solved it.

Answer #3:

I had the same problem while installing scipy-0.17.0-cp35-none-win_amd64.whl and my Python version is 3.5. It returned the same error message:

 scipy-0.17.0-cp35-none-win_amd64.whl is not supported wheel on this platform.

I realized that amd64 is not about my Windows, but about the Python version. Actually I am using a 32 bit Python on a 64 bit Windows. Installing the following file solved the issue:

scipy-0.17.0-cp35-none-win32.whl

Answer #4:

I come across this problem because the wrong name of my package (scipy-0.17.0-cp27-none-win_amd64 (1)), after I delete the ‘(1)’ and change the package to scipy-0.17.0-cp27-none-win_amd64, the problem got resolved.

Answer #5:

Change the filename to scipy-0.15.1-cp33-none-any.whl and then run this command:

pip install scipy-0.15.1-cp33-none-any.whl

It should work 🙂

Answer #6:

If you are totally new to python read step by step or go directly to 5th step directly.
Follow the below method to install scipy 0.18.1 on Windows 64-bit , Python 64-bit .
Be careful with the versions of
1. Python
2. Windows
3. .whl version of numpy and scipy files
4. First install numpy and then scipy.

pip install FileName.whl

5. ForNumpy:http://www.lfd.uci.edu/~gohlke/pythonlibs/#numpy
   ForScipy:http://www.lfd.uci.edu/~gohlke/pythonlibs/#scipy

Be aware of the file name ( what I mean is check the cp no).
Ex :scipy-0.18.1-cp35-cp35m-win_amd64.whl
To check which cp is supported by your pip , go to point No 2 below.

If you are using .whl file . Following errors are likely to occur .

1. You are using pip version 7.1.0, however version 8.1.2 is available.

You should consider upgrading via the ‘python -m pip install –upgrade pip’ command

2. scipy-0.15.1-cp33-none-win_amd64.whl.whl is not supported wheel on this platform

For the above error : start Python(in my case 3.5), type :

import pip
print(pip.pep425tags.get_supported())

output :

[(‘cp35’, ‘cp35m’, ‘win_amd64’), (‘cp35’, ‘none’, ‘win_amd64’), (‘py3’, ‘none’, ‘win_amd64’), (‘cp35’, ‘none’, ‘any’), (‘cp3’, ‘none’, ‘any’), (‘py35’, ‘none’, ‘any’), (‘py3’, ‘none’, ‘any’), (‘py34’, ‘none’, ‘any’), (‘py33’, ‘none’, ‘any’), (‘py32’, ‘none’, ‘any’), (‘py31’, ‘none’, ‘any’), (‘py30’, ‘none’, ‘any’)]

In the output you will observe cp35 is there , so download cp35 for numpy as well as scipy.
Further edits are most welcome !!!!

Answer #7:

Please do notice that all platform requirements are taken from the name of the *.whl file!

So be very careful with renaming of *.whl package. I occasionally renamed my newly compiled tensorflow package from

tensorflow-1.11.0-cp36-cp36m-linux_x86_64.whl

to

tensorflow-1.11.0-cp36-cp36m-linux_x86_64_gpu.whl

just to remind myself about gpu support and struggled with

tensorflow-1.11.0-cp36-cp36m-linux_x86_64_gpu.whl is not a supported
wheel on this platform.

error for about half an hour.

Answer #8:

First of all, cp33 means that it is to be used when you have Python 3.3 running on your system. So if you have Python 2.7 on your system, try installing the cp27 version.

Installing scipy-0.18.1-cp27-cp27m-win_amd64.whl, needs a Python 2.7 running and a 64-bit system.

If you are still getting an error saying “scipy-0.18.1-cp27-cp27m-win_amd64.whl is not a supported wheel on this platform”, then go for the win32 version.
By this I mean install scipy-0.18.1-cp27-cp27m-win32.whl instead of the first one.
This is because you might be running a 32-bit python on a 64-bit system.
The last step successfully installed scipy for me.