From: Brett Cannon <brett@python.org>
Date: Fri, 21 Oct 2016 19:53:40 +0000 (-0700)
Subject: Issue #25152: Mention the deprecation of pyvenv
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Issue #25152: Mention the deprecation of pyvenv
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diff --git a/Doc/library/venv.rst b/Doc/library/venv.rst
index af4a6d1ab409..62892d402707 100644
--- a/Doc/library/venv.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/venv.rst
@@ -23,6 +23,12 @@ independent set of installed Python packages in its site directories.
 
 See :pep:`405` for more information about Python virtual environments.
 
+.. note::
+   The `pyvenv` script has been deprecated as of Python 3.6 in favor of using
+   ``python3 -m venv`` to help prevent any potential confusion as to which
+   Python interpreter a virtual environment will be based on.
+
+
 Creating virtual environments
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