is it possible to use a local built whl as python dependency instead of using ones from pypi ?

[comicfans]

Hello here, my project depends on one python dependency, I found it contains some bug, since this package must be built with lots of dependencies (native extension with swig/cmake), I want to build this python project by itself build system, which generate the corresponding whl file, then only import this whl file (assume the python target is compatible with ones I use in rules_python), so rules_python will use my local whl file, instead of using ones downloaded from pypi, is this workflow possible ? I only find whl_requirement which described as "passed to other packing tool", but don't find anything about using local whl instead of ones from pypi. I'm asking this because the upstream project still haven't fixed the problem, and I may need to quickly test different compile flags for this python dependency.

Thanks for any advise.