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GH-109190: Copyedit 3.12 What's New: Increase the prominence of the setuptools removal #109768

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Expand Up @@ -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.

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