diff --git a/docs/home/guides/local.md b/docs/home/guides/local.md index 6241d808..907e93c5 100644 --- a/docs/home/guides/local.md +++ b/docs/home/guides/local.md @@ -88,6 +88,14 @@ Describing a python install for any arbitrary linux is out of scope here, but if Follow the instructions here: [Installing Python 3 on Mac OS X](https://docs.python-guide.org/starting/install3/osx/) ```` ````{tab} Windows + +Before installing Python, try again without the `3`: + +``` +python --version +``` +Depending on the version of Python, you may need to use one or the other. If this works, you're ready to go, jsut substitute `python` for `python3` in the couple places it appears below. + Go to http://www.python.org/download and download the next-to-latest minor version of Python for Windows in 32 or 64-bit as appropriate for your system [probably 64-bit]. As this is written, that's 3.10, while the latest is 3.11. #### Why the next-to-latest?