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@@ -57,8 +57,10 @@ You need the following software to use FontTools:
 <LI>
   <B>PyXML</B>, a set of XML tools:
     <A HREF="http://sourceforge.net/projects/pyxml/">http://sourceforge.net/projects/pyxml/</A>
-
   <BR>Installation should be very similar to installing Numeric Python, see above.
+  <BR><I>Note:</I> some Python distributions already contain the neccesary XML support.
+  If "import xml.parsers.expat" works at the Python interactive prompt, you don't need to
+  install PyXML.
   
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