[RELEASE] Python 3.9.0b1 is now available for testing

[Robin Becker]

On 19/05/2020 23:41, Robin Becker wrote:
> ..........
>>>> robin at minikat:~/devel/reportlab
>>>> $ $HOME/LOCAL/3.9b1/bin/python3.9
>>>> Python 3.9.0b1 (default, May 19 2020, 12:50:30) [GCC 10.1.0] on linux
>>>> Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>>>>>> import distutils
>>>> /home/robin/LOCAL/3.9b1/lib/python3.9/distutils/__init__.py:15: UserWarning: The virtualenv distutils package at %s appears to be in the same location as the system distutils? 
>>>>
>>>>   warnings.warn("The virtualenv distutils package at %s appears to be in the same location as the system distutils?")
>>>>>>> distutils.__path__
>>>> ['/home/robin/LOCAL/3.9b1/lib/python3.9/distutils']
>>>>>>> distutils.__file__
>>>> '/home/robin/LOCAL/3.9b1/lib/python3.9/distutils/__init__.py'

it seems installing virtualenv 16.2.0 into my python3.9 and then using it to create a venv modifies the base 
distutils/__init__.py so the problem seems to lie with virtualenv (or at least the older version).
-- 
Robin Becker