[Twisted-Python] Update Getting started with Pip

[Glyph]

> On May 19, 2018, at 1:07 PM, Craig Rodrigues <rodrigc at crodrigues.org> wrote:
> 
> In the top left-hand section of https://twistedmatrix.com <https://twistedmatrix.com/>, can someone with
> edit permissions to the page change:
> 
> $ virtualenv try-twisted
> $ . try-twisted/bin/activate
> $ pip install twisted[tls]
> $ twist --help
> 
> 
> to something like:
> 
> On Python 2:
>     $ python -m virtualenv try-twisted
> 
> On Python 3:
>     $ python3 -m venv try-twisted
> 
> On Python 2 or 3:
>      $ . try-twisted/bin/activtate
>      $ pip install twisted[tls]
>      $ twist --help
> 
> At least with base Python 3, using the venv module is preferred: https://docs.python.org/3/library/venv.html <https://docs.python.org/3/library/venv.html>

The "pyenv" script referenced by that documentation was a script that came with Python itself, not "virtualenv".  Virtualenv is not deprecated, and behaves more consistently between 2 and 3.

I don't think that adding more complexity to these instructions is a good idea, especially with no clear benefit.  Let's not make the change.

-g

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