Python 2.7 released

[John Machin]

On Jul 5, 12:27 pm, Martineau <ggrp2.20.martin... at dfgh.net> wrote:
> 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.htmlorMisc/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.

If you have a Windows box, download the .msi installer for Python 2.7
and install it. The chm file will be in C:\Python27\Doc (if you choose
the default installation directory). Otherwise ask a friendly local
Windows user for a copy.