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Python 2.6

These are the release candidates for Python 2.6. While not ready for production use, we highly recommend that you can test these releases and report any last minute bugs you might find. The NEWS file contains a listing of everything that's new in Python 2.6rc2.

PEP 361 includes the schedule and will be updated as the schedule evolves. At this point, any testing you can do would be greatly appreciated.

Please report bugs at http://bugs.python.org

See also the license.

Download

This is a release candidate; we currently support these formats:

• Gzipped source tar ball (2.6rc2) (sig)
• Bzipped source tar ball (2.6rc2) (sig)
• Windows x86 MSI Installer (2.6rc2) (sig)
• Windows AMD64 MSI Installer (2.6rc2) (sig)

MD5 checksums and sizes of the released files:

bc915d57f0711d039c91616d29e617dc  12875446  Python-2.6rc2.tgz
49666f0ab3e4b6d8bd54e35c6913af35  10801794  Python-2.6rc2.tar.bz2
1dcbb3baf954e5e226f6cabbce3d3a38  14370816  python-2.6rc2.amd64.msi
105463200b89ea9e26acc9bdc0112f19  13860352  python-2.6rc2.msi

The signatures above were generated with GnuPG using release manager Barry Warsaw's public key which has a key id of EA5BBD71.

What's New?

• Here is What's new in Python 2.6rc2.
• For the full list of changes, you can poke around in Subversion.

Vista Note

Administrators installing Python for all users on Windows Vista either need to be logged in as Administrator, or use the runas command, as in:

runas /user:Administrator "msiexec /i \.msi"