GH-109190: Copyedit 3.12 What's New: Increase the prominence of the s…

…etuptools removal (#109768)
python · Sep 25, 2023 · 09a73d5 · 09a73d5
1 parent e81bd3f
commit 09a73d5
Showing 1 changed file with 7 additions and 0 deletions.
diff --git a/Doc/whatsnew/3.12.rst b/Doc/whatsnew/3.12.rst
@@ -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
 =======================