bpo-37403: Touch up venv docs (GH-14458)

Add a versionadded for PS Core and note that `.venv` is a common virtual environment name.
(cherry picked from commit f9f8e3ce709ceb15c8db8c8dde940daf1febf13d)

Co-authored-by: Brett Cannon <54418+brettcannon@users.noreply.github.com>

1 files changed, 6 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/Doc/tutorial/venv.rst b/Doc/tutorial/venv.rst
index dc4136e..558076d 100644
--- a/Doc/tutorial/venv.rst
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@@ -50,6 +50,12 @@ This will create the ``tutorial-env`` directory if it doesn't exist,
 and also create directories inside it containing a copy of the Python
 interpreter, the standard library, and various supporting files.
 
+A common directory location for a virtual environment is ``.venv``.
+This name keeps the directory typically hidden in your shell and thus
+out of the way while giving it a name that explains why the directory
+exists. It also prevents clashing with ``.env`` environment variable
+definition files that some tooling supports.
+
 Once you've created a virtual environment, you may activate it.
 
 On Windows, run::