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[doc] Remove references to obsolete BuildApplet on macOS. (GH-20023) 

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Co-authored-by: Andre Delfino <adelfino@gmail.com>
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@ -27,9 +27,8 @@ What you get after installing is a number of things:
* A :file:`Python 3.8` folder in your :file:`Applications` folder. In here
you find IDLE, the development environment that is a standard part of official
Python distributions; PythonLauncher, which handles double-clicking Python
scripts from the Finder; and the "Build Applet" tool, which allows you to
package Python scripts as standalone applications on your system.
Python distributions; and PythonLauncher, which handles double-clicking Python
scripts from the Finder.
* A framework :file:`/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework`, which includes the
Python executable and libraries. The installer adds this location to your shell
@ -159,11 +158,6 @@ https://riverbankcomputing.com/software/pyqt/intro.
Distributing Python Applications on the Mac
===========================================
The "Build Applet" tool that is placed in the MacPython 3.6 folder is fine for
packaging small Python scripts on your own machine to run as a standard Mac
application. This tool, however, is not robust enough to distribute Python
applications to other users.
The standard tool for deploying standalone Python applications on the Mac is
:program:`py2app`. More information on installing and using py2app can be found
at http://undefined.org/python/#py2app.