Python 2.6.7

Warning: Python 2.6.7 reached end-of-life on 2013-10-29. It is no longer supported and does not receive security updates. We recommend upgrading to the latest Python release.

Release date: June 3, 2011

Python 2.6 is now in security-fix-only mode; no new features are being added, and no new bug fix releases are planned. We intend to provide source-only security fixes for the Python 2.6 series until October 2013 (five years after the 2.6 final release). For ongoing maintenance releases, please see the Python 2.7 series. The NEWS file lists every change in each alpha, beta, and release candidate of Python 2.6.

What's New in Python 2.6.

Report bugs at http://bugs.python.org.

Read the Python license.

PEP 361 set out the development schedule for 2.6.

Help fund Python and its community by donating to the Python Software Foundation.

Download

This is a production release; we currently support these formats:

Gzipped source tar ball (2.6.7) (sig)

Bzipped source tar ball (2.6.7) (sig)

MD5 checksums and sizes of the released files:

af474f85a3af69ea50438a2a48039d7d  13322372  Python-2.6.7.tgz
d40ef58ed88438a870bbeb0ac5d4217b  11084667  Python-2.6.7.tar.bz2

The signatures for the source tarballs above were generated with GnuPG using release manager Barry Warsaw's public key which has a key id of A74B06BF.

Documentation

The documentation has also been updated. You can browse the HTML on-line or download the HTML.

Full Changelog

Files

Version	Operating system	Description	File size	GPG	MD5 checksum
Gzipped source tarball	Source release		56.5 MB	SIG	73c634cfc9d6894902c423f6fa4ed313
bzip2 compressed source tarball	Source release		10.6 MB	SIG	d40ef58ed88438a870bbeb0ac5d4217b