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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 09a73d5) Co-authored-by: Adam Turner <[email protected]>
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`the migration guide <https://peps.python.org/pep-0632/#migration-advice>`_
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for advice on its replacement.
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* :gh:`95299`: Do not pre-install ``setuptools`` in virtual environments
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created with :mod:`venv`.
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This means that ``distutils``, ``setuptools``, ``pkg_resources``,
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and ``easy_install`` will no longer available by default; to access these
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run ``pip install setuptools`` in the :ref:`activated <venv-explanation>`
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virtual environment.
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Improved Error Messages
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