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authorMiss Islington (bot) <31488909+miss-islington@users.noreply.github.com>2023-09-25 10:16:00 (GMT)
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[3.12] GH-109190: Copyedit 3.12 What's New: Increase the prominence of the setuptools removal (GH-109768) (#109815)
GH-109190: Copyedit 3.12 What's New: Increase the prominence of the setuptools removal (GH-109768) (cherry picked from commit 09a73d50f687b9b388b0386f400d9ba5a7c5f2a5) Co-authored-by: Adam Turner <9087854+AA-Turner@users.noreply.github.com>
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@@ -93,6 +93,13 @@ Important deprecations, removals or restrictions:
`the migration guide <https://peps.python.org/pep-0632/#migration-advice>`_
for advice on its replacement.
+* :gh:`95299`: Do not pre-install ``setuptools`` in virtual environments
+ created with :mod:`venv`.
+ This means that ``distutils``, ``setuptools``, ``pkg_resources``,
+ and ``easy_install`` will no longer available by default; to access these
+ run ``pip install setuptools`` in the :ref:`activated <venv-explanation>`
+ virtual environment.
+
Improved Error Messages
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