alternative location.)
On Windows machines, the Python installation is usually placed in
-:file:`C:\Python26`, though you can change this when you're running the
+:file:`C:\\Python26`, though you can change this when you're running the
installer. To add this directory to your path, you can type the following
command into the command prompt in a DOS box::
that are not available on your distro's package. You can easily compile the
latest version of Python from source.
-In the event Python doesn't come preinstalled and isn't in the repositories as
+In the event that Python doesn't come preinstalled and isn't in the repositories as
well, you can easily make packages for your own distro. Have a look at the
following links:
<http://www.python.org/download/releases/>`_ for many years.
With ongoing development of Python, some platforms that used to be supported
-earlier are not longer supported (due to the lack of users or developers).
+earlier are no longer supported (due to the lack of users or developers).
Check :pep:`11` for details on all unsupported platforms.
* DOS and Windows 3.x are deprecated since Python 2.0 and code specific to these