Python 2.7 released

[Benjamin Kaplan]

On Sun, Jul 4, 2010 at 7:58 PM, John Machin <sjmachin at lexicon.net> wrote:
> 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.
> --

Or you can just use 7-zip or cabextract on the MSi. Saves you from
having to uninstall it later, and it works on non-Windows machines.