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Update virtualenv and pyvenv information in installing.rst
Clarify that pyvenv is available on Python 3.3+ and virtualenv supports Python 3.5. Also, updated to use "through" instead of "thru".
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python -m pip install -U pip setuptools
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You will not have :ref:`wheel`, so you'll need to run: ``pip install wheel``
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* If you're using a Python install on Linux that's managed by the system package
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manager (e.g "yum", "apt-get" etc...), and you want to use the system package
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manager to install or upgrade pip, then see :ref:`Installing
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Currently, there are two viable tools for creating Python virtual environments:
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:ref:`virtualenv` and `pyvenv`_. `pyvenv`_ is only available in Python 3.3 &
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3.4, and only in Python 3.4, is :ref:`pip` & :ref:`setuptools` installed into
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environments by default, whereas :ref:`virtualenv` supports Python 2.6 thru
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Python 3.4 and :ref:`pip` & :ref:`setuptools` are installed by default in every
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version.
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* `pyvenv`_ is available by default in Python 3.3 and later, and installs
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:ref:`pip` and :ref:`setuptools` into created virtual environments in
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Python 3.4 and later.
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* :ref:`virtualenv` needs to be installed separately, but supports Python 2.6+
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and Python 3.3+, and :ref:`pip`, :ref:`setuptools` and :ref:`wheel` are
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always installed into created virtual environments by default (regardless of
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Python version).
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The basic usage is like so:
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