Python 2.7.8
Release date: July 2, 2014
Python 2.7.8 was released on July 1, 2014. This release includes regression and security fixes over 2.7.7 including:
- The openssl version bundled in the Windows installer has been updated.
- Aregression in the mimetypes module on Windows has been fixed.
- Apossible overflow in the buffer type has been fixed.
- Abug in the CGIHTTPServer module which allows arbitrary execution of code in the server root has been patched.
- Aregression in the handling of UNC paths inos.path.join has been fixed.
Download
This is a production release. Pleasereport any bugs you encounter.
We currently support these formats for download:
- Windows x86 MSI Installer (2.7.8)
- Windows x86 MSI program database (2.7.8)
- Windows X86-64 MSI Installer (2.7.8)[1]
- Windows X86-64 MSI program database (2.7.8)[1]
- Windows help file
- Mac OS X 64-bit/32-bit x86-64/i386 Installer (2.7.8) for Mac OS X10.6 and later[2](sig). [You may need anupdated Tcl/Tk install to run IDLE or use Tkinter, see note 2 for instructions.]
- Mac OS X 32-bit i386/PPC Installer (2.7.8) for Mac OS X 10.5 andlater[2](sig).
- Mac OS X 32-bit i386/PPC Installer (2.7.8) for Mac OS X 10.3 andlater (deprecated, see below)[2](sig).
- XZ compressed source tar ball (2.7.8)(sig)
- Gzipped source tar ball (2.7.8)(sig)
The source tarballs are signed with Benjamin Peterson's key, which has key id18ADD4FF. The Mac installers were signed with Ned Deily'skey, which has a key id of 6F5E1540. The public keys are located on thedownload page.
MD5 checksums and sizes of the released files:
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Resources
About the 2.7 release series
Among the features and improvements to Python 2.6 introduced in the 2.7 seriesare
- An ordered dictionary type
- New unittest features including test skipping, new assert methods, and testdiscovery
- 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
Binary installer support for OS X 10.4 and 10.3.9 to be discontinued
Python 2.7.8 is the last release for which binary installers will bereleased on python.org that support Mac OS X 10.3.9 (Panther) and 10.4.x(Tiger) systems. For Python 2.7.8 only, we are providing three OS Xbinary installers: the unchanged 10.6+ 64-bit/32-bit format, the deprecated 10.3+ 32-bit-only format,and the newer 10.5+ 32-bit-only format.See the README included with the installer downloads for more information.
| [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] | (1,2,3) There isimportant information about IDLE, Tkinter, and Tcl/Tk on Mac OSX here. |
Files
| Version | Operating System | Description | MD5 Sum | File Size | GPG |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gzipped source tarball | Source release | d4bca0159acb0b44a781292b5231936f | 14.2 MB | SIG | |
| XZ compressed source tarball | Source release | d235bdfa75b8396942e360a70487ee00 | 10.0 MB | SIG | |
| Mac OS X 32-bit i386/PPC installer | macOS | for Mac OS X 10.5 and later | 23e9a3e4e0e4ef2f0989148edaa507e5 | 19.5 MB | SIG |
| Mac OS X 64-bit/32-bit installer | macOS | for Mac OS X 10.6 and later | 183f72950e4d04a7137fc29848740d09 | 19.4 MB | SIG |
| Windows help file | Windows | 1cda33c3546f20b484869bed243d8726 | 5.8 MB | SIG | |
| Windows debug information files | Windows | 83c1b28264ca8eb1ea97100065988192 | 24.2 MB | SIG | |
| Windows debug information files for 64-bit binaries | Windows | 1d573b6422d4b00aeb39c1ed5aa05d8c | 22.5 MB | SIG | |
| Windows x86 MSI installer | Windows | ef95d83ace85d1577b915dbd481977d4 | 15.9 MB | SIG | |
| Windows x86-64 MSI installer | Windows | for AMD64/EM64T/x64 | 38cadfcac6dd56ecf772f2f3f14ee846 | 16.4 MB | SIG |