docs/quickstart.rst: update recommended Python version.

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@@ -31,12 +31,12 @@ Install Python
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 Check if you already have an adequate version of Python installed by running
-``python -V``. Python v2.4 (v2.4.4 or greater), Python v2.5, Python v2.6, or
-Python v2.7 will work. Python v3 does not work. On Windows, we recommend the
-use of native Python, not Cygwin. If you don't have one of these versions of
-Python installed, download and install `Python v2.7`_. Make sure that the
-path to the installation directory has no spaces in it (e.g. on Windows, do
-not install Python in the "Program Files" directory).
+``python -V``. Python v2.6 (v2.6.6 or greater recommended) or Python v2.7 will
+work. Python v3 does not work. On Windows, we recommend the use of native
+Python v2.7, not Cygwin Python. If you don't have one of these versions of
+Python installed, download and install `Python v2.7`_. Make sure that the path
+to the installation directory has no spaces in it (e.g. on Windows, do not
+install Python in the "Program Files" directory).
 
 .. _Python v2.7: http://www.python.org/download/releases/2.7.2/
 
@@ -60,13 +60,13 @@ On Windows, the ``build`` step might tell you to open a new Command Prompt
 (or, on XP and earlier, to log out and back in again). This is needed the
 first time you set up Tahoe-LAFS on a particular installation of Windows.
 
-Optionally run ``python setup.py test`` to verify that it passes all of its
-self-tests.
-
 Run ``bin/tahoe --version`` (on Windows, ``bin\tahoe --version``) to verify
 that the executable tool prints out the right version number after
 "``allmydata-tahoe:``".
 
+Optionally run ``python setup.py trial`` to verify that it passes all of its
+self-tests.
+
 Run Tahoe-LAFS
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