Python 2.7 released

Martineau ggrp2.20.martineau at dfgh.net
Sun Jul 4 22:27:14 EDT 2010


On Jul 4, 8:34 am, Benjamin Peterson <benja... at python.org> wrote:
> On behalf of the Python development team, I'm jocund to announce the second
> release candidate of Python 2.7.
>
> Python 2.7 will be the last major version in the 2.x series. However, it will
> also have an extended period of bugfix maintenance.
>
> 2.7 includes many features that were first released in Python 3.1. The faster io
> module, the new nested with statement syntax, improved float repr, set literals,
> dictionary views, and the memoryview object have been backported from 3.1. Other
> features include an ordered dictionary implementation, unittests improvements, a
> new sysconfig module, auto-numbering of fields in the str/unicode format method,
> and support for ttk Tile in Tkinter.  For a more extensive list of changes in
> 2.7, seehttp://doc.python.org/dev/whatsnew/2.7.htmlor Misc/NEWS in the Python
> distribution.
>
> To download Python 2.7 visit:
>
>      http://www.python.org/download/releases/2.7/
>
> 2.7 documentation can be found at:
>
>      http://docs.python.org/2.7/
>
> This is a production release and should be suitable for all libraries and
> applications.  Please report any bugs you find, so they can be fixed in the next
> maintenance releases.  The bug tracker is at:
>
>      http://bugs.python.org/
>
> Enjoy!
>
> --
> Benjamin Peterson
> Release Manager
> benjamin at python.org
> (on behalf of the entire python-dev team and 2.7's contributors)

Benjamin (or anyone else), do you know where I can get the Compiled
Windows Help file -- python27.chm -- for this release? In the past
I've been able to download it from the Python web site, but have been
unable to locate it anywhere for this new release. I can't build it
myself because I don't have the Microsoft HTML help file compiler.

Thanks in advance.



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