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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 |