[BangPypers] FW: [Python-Dev] [RELEASE] Python 2.7 released

[Jeffrey Jose]

Follow up reading.

Python 2.7 released (and what that means) -
http://sayspy.blogspot.com/2010/07/python-27-released-and-what-that-means.html

/jeff

On Tue, Jul 6, 2010 at 9:44 AM, Senthil Kumaran <orsenthil at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Sun, Jul 04, 2010 at 10:34:57AM -0500, Benjamin Peterson 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, see http://doc.python.org/dev/whatsnew/2.7.html or 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)
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> Senthil
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