Andrew,

Apologies for mishandling the misplaced question on [[BeginnersGuide/Overview]].   I agree that's not the right place for Q&A, but I was trying to answer the anonymous question in a way the author might find the answer without having to be wiki-literate.

Unfortunately, it took me some time to understand your comment:   "Question answered by doc/faq/installed.txt."   Apparently this refers to [[http://www.python.org/doc/faq/installed.html]], with a .html extension.   Admittedly I'm not a Python guru, but if I took several minutes to understand this comment, the original author of the question might have just given up (presuming [s]he saw the comment at all, which presumes enough wiki-familiarity to check the history to figure out why the question was deleted!).

I'm 100% for putting everything in its place; I'm just not sure that a wiki-inexperienced person with this question would be able to find the answer given your response.  So if the wiki isn't partially intended to help newbie end-users find answers to their questions, maybe I don't understand the purpose of the wiki very well.

(And sorry if this isn't the way to do a "Talk" page.  I'm new to moin.  Please teach me if there's a better way.)

Cheers,
[[Philip]] - 2005-09-21