On behalf of the Jython development team, I'm pleased to announce that the second beta of Jython 2.7 is available. Details are here: http://fwierzbicki.blogspot.com/2014/08/jython-27-beta3-released.html Thanks to Adconion Media Group (now Amobee) for sponsoring my work on Jython, and thanks to the many contributors to Jython! -Frank