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Python 2.7.6

Warning: Python 2.7.6 reached end-of-life on 2020-01-01. It is no longer supported and does not receive security updates. We recommend upgrading to the latest Python release.

Release date: Nov. 10, 2013

Note: Python 2.7.6 has been superseded by Python 2.7.8.

Python 2.7.6 was released on November 10, 2013. This is a 2.7 series bugfix release. Most importantly, it resolves an issue that caused the interactive prompt to crash on OS X 10.9. It also includes numerous bugfixes over 2.7.5.

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We currently support these formats for download:

The source tarballs are signed with Benjamin Peterson's key, which has key id 18ADD4FF. The Windows installer was signed by Martin von Löwis' public key, which has a key id of 7D9DC8D2. The Mac installers were signed with Ned Deily's key, which has a key id of 6F5E1540. The public keys are located on the download page.

MD5 checksums and sizes of the released files:

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1d8728eb0dfcac72a0fd99c17ec7f386  14725931  Python-2.7.6.tgz
bcf93efa8eaf383c98ed3ce40b763497  10431288  Python-2.7.6.tar.xz

About the 2.7 release series

Among the features and improvements to Python 2.6 introduced in the 2.7 series are

  • An ordered dictionary type
  • New unittest features including test skipping, new assert methods, and test discovery
  • A much faster io module
  • Automatic numbering of fields in the str.format() method
  • Float repr improvements backported from 3.x
  • Tile support for Tkinter
  • A backport of the memoryview object from 3.x
  • Set literals
  • Set and dictionary comprehensions
  • Dictionary views
  • New syntax for nested with statements
  • The sysconfig module
[1](1, 2) The binaries for AMD64 will also work on processors that implement the Intel 64 architecture (formerly EM64T), i.e. the architecture that Microsoft calls x64, and AMD called x86-64 before calling it AMD64. They will not work on Intel Itanium Processors (formerly IA-64).
[2](1, 2) There is important information about IDLE, Tkinter, and Tcl/Tk on Mac OS X here.

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Mac OS X 64-bit/32-bit x86-64/i386 Installer macOS For Mac OS X 10.6 and later. You may need an updated Tcl/Tk install to run IDLE or use Tkinter, see note 2 for instructions. a2b0f708dcd5e22148e52ae77c6cdd3e n/a 19.2 MB
Windows help file Windows ef628818d054401bdfb186a1faa8b5b6 n/a 5.7 MB
Windows X86-64 MSI Installer Windows b73f8753c76924bc7b75afaa6d304645 n/a 15.9 MB
Windows X86-64 MSI program database Windows e4866ce2f277d1f8e41d6fdf0296799d n/a 16.6 MB
Windows x86 MSI Installer Windows ac54e14f7ba180253b9bae6635d822ea n/a 15.5 MB
Windows x86 MSI program database Windows ec3184d886efdc4c679eeaed5f62643b n/a 17.4 MB