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authorCAM Gerlach <CAM.Gerlach@Gerlach.CAM>2022-05-10 06:30:32 (GMT)
committerGitHub <noreply@github.com>2022-05-10 06:30:32 (GMT)
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gh-76773: Update docs mentioning no-longer-supported Windows versions & features (GH-92529)
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diff --git a/PC/readme.txt b/PC/readme.txt
index 0a96d26..4e6dcf9 100644
--- a/PC/readme.txt
+++ b/PC/readme.txt
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ All PC ports use this scheme to try to set up a module search path:
1) The script location; the current directory without script.
2) The PYTHONPATH variable, if set.
- 3) For Win32 platforms (NT/95), paths specified in the Registry.
+ 3) Paths specified in the Registry.
4) Default directories lib, lib/win, lib/test, lib/tkinter;
these are searched relative to the environment variable
PYTHONHOME, if set, or relative to the executable and its
@@ -26,8 +26,8 @@ All PC ports use this scheme to try to set up a module search path:
or the current directory (not useful).
5) The directory containing the executable.
-The best installation strategy is to put the Python executable (and
-DLL, for Win32 platforms) in some convenient directory such as
+The best installation strategy is to put the Python executable and
+DLL in some convenient directory such as
C:/python, and copy all library files and subdirectories (using XCOPY)
to C:/python/lib. Then you don't need to set PYTHONPATH. Otherwise,
set the environment variable PYTHONPATH to your Python search path.