diff --git a/docs/faq.rst b/docs/faq.rst index d5ea3cb87..ea2c8216f 100644 --- a/docs/faq.rst +++ b/docs/faq.rst @@ -64,20 +64,6 @@ Here's an example spider using BeautifulSoup API, with ``lxml`` as the HTML pars .. _BeautifulSoup's official documentation: https://www.crummy.com/software/BeautifulSoup/bs4/doc/#specifying-the-parser-to-use -.. _faq-python-versions: - -What Python versions does Scrapy support? ------------------------------------------ - -Scrapy is supported under Python 3.5.2+ -under CPython (default Python implementation) and PyPy (starting with PyPy 5.9). -Python 3 support was added in Scrapy 1.1. -PyPy support was added in Scrapy 1.4, PyPy3 support was added in Scrapy 1.5. -Python 2 support was dropped in Scrapy 2.0. - -.. note:: - For Python 3 support on Windows, it is recommended to use - Anaconda/Miniconda as :ref:`outlined in the installation guide `. Did Scrapy "steal" X from Django? --------------------------------- diff --git a/docs/intro/install.rst b/docs/intro/install.rst index fb64d443c..088137d38 100644 --- a/docs/intro/install.rst +++ b/docs/intro/install.rst @@ -4,12 +4,18 @@ Installation guide ================== +.. _faq-python-versions: + +Supported Python versions +========================= + +Scrapy requires Python 3.5.2+, either the default CPython implementation or +the PyPy 5.9+ implementation (see :ref:`python:implementations`). + + Installing Scrapy ================= -Scrapy runs on Python 3.5.2 or above under CPython (default Python -implementation) and PyPy (starting with PyPy 5.9). - If you're using `Anaconda`_ or `Miniconda`_, you can install the package from the `conda-forge`_ channel, which has up-to-date packages for Linux, Windows and macOS.