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Expand Up @@ -325,7 +325,11 @@ Creating a Python environment (pip)
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If you aren't using conda for your development environment, follow these instructions.
You'll need to have at least Python 3.6.1 installed on your system.
You'll need to have at least Python 3.7.0 installed on your system. If your Python version
is 3.8.0 (or later), you might need to update your ``setuptools`` to version 42.0.0 (or later)
in your development environment before installing the build dependencies::

pip install --upgrade setuptools

**Unix**/**macOS with virtualenv**

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