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Its options and outputs are provisional and may change without notice.   Description(Link to this heading) ¶   Display debug information.   Options(Link to this heading) ¶    --platform  <platform>  (Link to this definition) ¶  Only use wheels compatible with <platform>. Defaults to the platform of the running system. Use this option multiple times to specify multiple platforms supported by the target interpreter. (environment variable: PIP_PLATFORM  )    --python-version  <python_version>  (Link to this definition) ¶  The Python interpreter version to use for wheel and “Requires-Python”
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