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| author | R David Murray <rdmurray@bitdance.com> | 2014-03-11 18:57:30 (GMT) |
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| committer | R David Murray <rdmurray@bitdance.com> | 2014-03-11 18:57:30 (GMT) |
| commit | 49bef7b3eb375992305c186a443e779bb4820852 (patch) | |
| tree | 18ae17518aff4e781d92c6a5dfc3ce6d266f19cf | |
| parent | 6cd3a0d59871874f9f1d3ae40023c96bd1c9c09b (diff) | |
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whatsnew: mention that upgrading PIP means it doesn't get unistalled.
#19861 msg213156.
| -rw-r--r-- | Doc/whatsnew/3.4.rst | 8 |
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diff --git a/Doc/whatsnew/3.4.rst b/Doc/whatsnew/3.4.rst index 57c72c5..a1d79ad 100644 --- a/Doc/whatsnew/3.4.rst +++ b/Doc/whatsnew/3.4.rst @@ -450,9 +450,11 @@ environment was declined. :mod:`ensurepip` includes a bundled copy of ``pip``, up-to-date as of the first release candidate of the release of CPython with which it ships (this applies to both maintenance releases and feature releases). ``ensurepip`` does not -access the internet. (If the installation has Internet access, it is of course -possible to upgrade ``pip`` to a release more recent than the bundled ``pip`` -by using the bundled ``pip`` command itself once it is installed.) +access the internet. If the installation has Internet access, after +``ensurepip`` is run the bundled ``pip`` can be used to upgrade ``pip`` to a +more recent release than the bundled one. (Note that such an upgraded version +of ``pip`` is considered to be a separately installed package and will not be +removed if Python is uninstalled.) The module is named *ensure*\ pip because if called when ``pip`` is already installed, it does nothing. It also has an ``--upgrade`` option that will |