[pydotorg-www] small edit to Beginner Wiki page

Chris Angelico rosuav at gmail.com
Fri Apr 15 02:59:04 EDT 2022


On Fri, 15 Apr 2022 at 13:25, Erin Lazzari <eeglazzari at gmail.com> wrote:
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> Dear Python Editing Team,
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> I am a very new user trying to teach myself Python and discovered that one small change to the Beginner page would have made my life easier yesterday by saving me several hours of scrolling and angsting, so I thought I'd make the change myself instead of just complaining about it. My username is ErinLazzari, as per the username directions on the profile-creation page.
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> On this page here: https://wiki.python.org/moin/BeginnersGuide/Download the note in the Windows section about the yellow download button actually refers to the main download page, which isn't hotlinked until the bottom, so I assumed it was referring to the Windows page -- which notably lacks a yellow download button. I was hoping to simply create a hyperlink on 'main download page' that goes to this page instead: https://wiki.python.org/moin/BeginnersGuide/Download .... which does have a yellow download button!
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> There are a few other concepts that would be good to explain to complete newbies like myself (i.e. those of us who have never coded before in our lives beyond a little bit of HTML and maybe BBCode from the forum days), but I'll leave those to the more experienced users until I have some concept of what I'm doing.
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Ah yes, probably that page has fallen behind while the web site has
been updated. I've added you as an editor, so you should be able to
make those changes. Thank you for your vigilance!

ChrisA


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