docs: update installation instructions for Python 3

sfepy · Jun 22, 2016 · 6160d3f · 6160d3f
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diff --git a/INSTALL b/INSTALL
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ Requirements
 Installation prerequisites, required to build SfePy:
 
 - a C compiler suite (for example gcc)
-- Python 2.6 or 2.7
+- Python 2.7 or 3
 - NumPy
 - Cython
 

diff --git a/doc/installation.rst b/doc/installation.rst
@@ -13,15 +13,17 @@ Platforms
 ---------
 
 *SfePy* is known to work on various flavors of Linux, on Intel Macs and
-Windows.
+Windows. It can work with both Python 2.7 and Python 3. Depending on Python
+installation and OS used, replacing ``python`` by ``python3`` might be required
+in all the commands below (e.g. in :ref:`compilation`) in order to use Python 3.
 
 Requirements
 ------------
 
 Installation prerequisites, required to build *SfePy*:
 
 - a C compiler suite (for example gcc)
-- `Python`_ 2.6 or 2.7
+- `Python`_ 2.7 or 3
 - `NumPy`_
 - `Cython`_