On Jul 5, 12:27 pm, Martineau <ggrp2.20.martin...@dfgh.net> wrote: > On Jul 4, 8:34 am, Benjamin Peterson <benja...@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. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
