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Update installation instructions for Windows PowerShell
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Expand Up @@ -129,6 +129,8 @@ Before you work on your project, activate the corresponding environment:
Your shell prompt will change to show the name of the activated
environment.

In windows, PowerShell scripts such as the venv activation script are blocked by default. To fix this, you should open PowerShell and run the command Set-ExecutionPolicy AllSigned or another policy that allows PowerShell scripts. Learn more at https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/module/microsoft.powershell.security/set-executionpolicy?view=powershell-7.5
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I can't comment on whether this makes sense since I'm, not very familiar with PowerShell, but this line is excessively long compared to any other lines in this file.

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Made it ever so slightly shorter, but wasn’t quite sure how to shorten it by a large amount

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I was talking about adding linebreaks, not actually shortening the content ;)

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Also, being a rst file, links should be correctly marked as links and not just plaintext urls. You can check other links in the same file for examples on how that's done.

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I’ve added line breaks, but I’ve never used rst before and can’t figure out how to do the links…

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Figured them out now, I was using the wrong type of apostrophe 🤦



Install Flask
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