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.
That said, I didn't understand your comment. "Question answered by doc/faq/installed.txt." -- is that an installed file? I have Python 2.4 (executables, not source) installed and doc doesn't have a faq subdir. Or did you mean [http://www.python.org/doc/faq/installed.txt] -- which appears non-existant?
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.
(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"]