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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 3.6.1 installed on your system. If your Python version
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3.7 now?

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Thanks! Updated!

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my bad, just noticed there's already #40552 open to address the 3.6.1 issue, sorry for my irrelevant comment

is 3.8.0 (or later), make sure to update your `setuptools` to version 42.0.0 (or later)::

pip install --upgrade setuptools

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

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