From: R David Murray Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2014 18:57:30 +0000 (-0400) Subject: whatsnew: mention that upgrading PIP means it doesn't get unistalled. X-Git-Tag: v3.4.1rc1~233^2~58 X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=49bef7b3eb375992305c186a443e779bb4820852;p=thirdparty%2FPython%2Fcpython.git whatsnew: mention that upgrading PIP means it doesn't get unistalled. #19861 msg213156. --- diff --git a/Doc/whatsnew/3.4.rst b/Doc/whatsnew/3.4.rst index 57c72c596895..a1d79ad199a2 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