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No description of what architectures are supported by MacOS "universal2" installers #2232

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Describe the bug
There is no description of what "universal2" means. Some people might not be familiar with that term, especially now that MacOS has supported 3 different architectures in recent memory.

The fact that the term "universal" had to be versioned should be an indication of the ambiguity.

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  1. Go to python.org, hover "download", click "MacOS" (https://www.python.org/downloads/macos/)
  2. Some releases have "universal2 installer" links, some have "Intel-only installer" links, some have "no files". No description of "universal2" on that page
  3. Click on a release, for example 3.11.1 (https://www.python.org/downloads/release/python-3111/)
  4. That page has a lot of information, including a definition of quark-gluon plasma, MD5 sums, file sizes accurate to the byte, GPG signatures, Sigstore files (with a link that defines Sigtore!), a note next to the "recommended" Windows installer, a note about which MacOS versions are supported ("for macOS 10.9 and later"), but again no mention of architectures apart from the term "universal2"

Expected behavior
Uncommon terms such as "universal2" which are directly relevant to Mac users would be defined somewhere on either the MacOS-specific download page or the download section of a release's page

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