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 # like Pillow and psycopg2
 # See http://bitly.com/wheel-building-fails-CPython-35
 # Verified bug on Python 3.5.1
-wheel==0.29.0
+wheel==0.38.1
 
 # Bleeding edge Django
 django==1.11