diff --git a/poetry/utils/patterns.py b/poetry/utils/patterns.py
index 1d6413c26fe..ec6c53d78d7 100644
--- a/poetry/utils/patterns.py
+++ b/poetry/utils/patterns.py
@@ -2,8 +2,11 @@
 
 
 wheel_file_re = re.compile(
-    r"""^(?P<namever>(?P<name>.+?)(-(?P<ver>\d.+?))?)
-        ((-(?P<build>\d.*?))?-(?P<pyver>.+?)-(?P<abi>.+?)-(?P<plat>.+?)
-        \.whl|\.dist-info)$""",
+    r"^(?P<namever>(?P<name>.+?)-(?P<ver>\d.*?))"
+    r"(-(?P<build>\d.*?))?"
+    r"-(?P<pyver>.+?)"
+    r"-(?P<abi>.+?)"
+    r"-(?P<plat>.+?)"
+    r"\.whl|\.dist-info$",
     re.VERBOSE,
 )
diff --git a/tests/utils/test_patterns.py b/tests/utils/test_patterns.py
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..f5539ae481c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/utils/test_patterns.py
@@ -0,0 +1,41 @@
+import pytest
+
+from poetry.utils import patterns
+
+
+@pytest.mark.parametrize(
+    ["filename", "namever", "name", "ver", "build", "pyver", "abi", "plat"],
+    [
+        (
+            "markdown_captions-2-py3-none-any.whl",
+            "markdown_captions-2",
+            "markdown_captions",
+            "2",
+            None,
+            "py3",
+            "none",
+            "any",
+        ),
+        (
+            "SQLAlchemy-1.3.20-cp27-cp27mu-manylinux2010_x86_64.whl",
+            "SQLAlchemy-1.3.20",
+            "SQLAlchemy",
+            "1.3.20",
+            None,
+            "cp27",
+            "cp27mu",
+            "manylinux2010_x86_64",
+        ),
+    ],
+)
+def test_wheel_file_re(filename, namever, name, ver, build, pyver, abi, plat):
+    match = patterns.wheel_file_re.match(filename)
+    groups = match.groupdict()
+
+    assert groups["namever"] == namever
+    assert groups["name"] == name
+    assert groups["ver"] == ver
+    assert groups["build"] == build
+    assert groups["pyver"] == pyver
+    assert groups["abi"] == abi
+    assert groups["plat"] == plat